From the 1920s through the 1950s, Bertolt Brecht wrote a number of short, fictionalized comments on contemporary life, politics, and thought.
Keuner pieces, newly translated, alongside cartoons by German artist Ulf K., whose spare, abstract style lends force to the underlying meanings of Keuner\'s pronouncements..
This graphic novel adaptation sets a number of Brecht\'s Mr.
Keuner\'s comments bring Brecht\'s lacerating wit to bear on a wide range of the half-truths and public lies of his era.
Deceptively light in tone, and bite-size in presentation, Mr.
Keuner offered up aphorisms, stray thoughts, and fragments of anecdote that punctured contemporary self-regard about religion, politics, business, and more.
Through the dramatic events of the first half of the twentieth century, Brecht\'s Mr.
From the 1920s through the 1950s, Bertolt Brecht wrote a number of short, fictionalized comments on contemporary life, politics, and thought