Brecht's Lover by Jacques-Pierre Amette
A fictionalized portrait of an intense, clandestine affair between a charismatic, politically engaged playwright and a young woman, the novel probes how passion, artistic ambition and ideological conviction intersect and corrode one another; intimate details of love and manipulation are set against the pressures of artistic life and the tumult of twentieth-century Europe, exposing the moral compromises, betrayals and personal costs that accompany proximity to genius and power.
The 13569th greatest book of all time
- Published
- 2003
- Nationality
- French
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- Unknown
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- Unknown
- Original Language
- French
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- Alternate Titles
- - La maîtresse de Brecht
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