Fatzer: Revolution and Counter-revolution in Germany

Author(s)

Pedro Mantovani

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2018-02-20

Examining board members

Paulo Eduardo Arantes; Rafael Litvin Villas Boas; Jose Antonio Pasta Junior; Sérgio Ricardo de Carvalho Santos; Anderson Gonçalves da Silva

• Advisor: Paulo Eduardo Arantes

Abstract

The goal of this work is to propose a commentary about Brecht\'s Fatzer complex. On one hand, it is the reading of the entirety of fragments worked by Bertolt Brecht between 1926 and 1930, divided in document and commentary, unpublished during the author\'s life. We understand that in the complex we can find, in the first place, a register of Brechts artistical and political formation process, the \"way\" into Marxism that occurred in the Weimar Republic in the twenties. In the second place, we identify on this material Brecht\'s dialectical method of artistic configuration in action, which he has once referred to as \"the highest technical standard\". On the other hand, we propose a reading of the Fatzer fragment that was published in the first of his Versuche in 1930. Our hypothesis is that it can be understood as a brechtian agitprop work in defense of the United Front. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 14/06139-3 - Fatzer and its uses
• Grantee: Pedro Mantovani
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate