Collected stories / Bertolt Brecht ; edited by John Willett and Ralph Manheim ; translated by Yvonne Kapp, Hugh Rorrison, and Antony Tatlow ; with a new introduction by Marc Silberman and Shuhsi Kao. [print]

Includes bibliographies and index.

The Bavarian stories (1920-1924). Bargan gives up ; Story on a ship ; The revelation ; The foolish wife ; The blind man ; A helping hand ; Java Meier ; The Lance-Sergeant ; Message in a bottle ; A mean bastard ; The death of Cesare Malatesta -- The Berlin stories (1924-1933). The answer ; Before the blood ; Conversation about the South Seas ; Letter about a mastiff ; Hook to the chin ; Muller's natural attitude ; North Sea shrimps ; Bad water ; A little tale of insurance ; Four men and a poker game ; Barbara ; The Good Lord's package ; The monster ; The job -- Stories written in exile (19340-1948). Safety first ; The soldier of La Coitat ; A mistake ; Gaumer and Irk ; Socrates wounded ; The experiment ; The heretic's coat ; Lucullus's trophies ; The unseemly old lady ; A question of state ; The Augsburg chalk circle ; Two sons.

Everyone knows that Bertolt Brecht was one of the great twentieth century innovators in theater - the literary-theatrical equivalent of a Picasso or Stravinsky - but the playwright was also a dazzling writer of stories. Storytelling permeated his art as a dramatist; fundamentally in his plays he was a storyteller.

In this volume, reprinted for the Brecht centenary, the joint editors of Brecht's work in English have collected the complete short stories, including the prize-winning "The Monster," and the fragmentary memoir ghost-written by Brecht, "Life Story of the Boxer Samson-Korner." Brecht scholars Marc Silberman and Shuhsi Kao have contributed a new introduction and brought the original editorial notes up to date with the latest scholarship.

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