Brecht

I guess it’s what Brecht would call the estrangement effect, where the realistic is made unusual again by just slightly changing the perspective from which you view it.

And anyway, if Brecht did not want us to feel for Mother Courage, why did he make her so richly shaded and humanly fallible?

Still, Brecht did manage to do some courageous things during the war—one of them being the writing of Mother Courage.

Brecht placed his merchant-mother in a dark universe of impossible choices.

Along with Galileo, it represents Brecht at his epic apogee.

When Brecht penned these lines, his continent hovered on the precipice of a journey into hell.