The Piano Player of Budapest
Robinson, $34.99 pb, 268 pp
Dark times
In the winter of 1937–38, Bertolt Brecht, a refugee from National Socialism, lived in furious exile in Svendborg, a small town on the Danish island of Funen. There he wrote and compiled a collection of poems under the working title ‘Gedichte im Exil’ (Poems in Exile). Sometime between galleys and the poet’s move to Sweden following the Munich Agreement, the book was renamed Svendborger Gedichte, the second section of which begins with a simple motto:
In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing
About the dark times.
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The Piano Player of Budapest
by Roxanne de Bastion
Robinson, $34.99 pb, 268 pp
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