What Weimar Berlin’s Most Famous Plays Revealed About Artistic Freedom
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Is there a German word that means the opposite of “doppelgänger”—not the uncannily mysterious twin, but the secretly matched-up opponent who stands for everything one hates and also hates everything one stands for? If so, Bertolt Brecht could have filled that role for Vladimir Nabokov. It would be hard to imagine two more dissimilar writers inhabiting the same city at the same time. While Nabokov was yearning toward a lost aristocratic past, Brecht was actively championing a proletarian future i
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