Re: RE: [OPE] 5 difficulties writing truth

Hi Howard, all

here is the German original:

"Die grosse Wahrheit unseres Zeitalters (mit deren Erkenntnis noch
nicht gedient ist, ohne deren Erkenntnis aber keine andere Wahrheit
von Belang gefunden werden kann) ist es, daß unser Erdteil in Barbarei
versinkt, weil die Eigentumsverhältnisse an den Produktionsmitteln mit
Gewalt festgehalten werden".

In solidarity,

J.

2009/3/17 <he31@verizon.net>:
>
> The Darko Suvin article you put us on to is the secondary source that
> specifies 5 difficulties -- couldn't have done without it!
>
> Clearly the difference in the summaries is one of translation -- so now we
> need to track the german . . . that must be online.  I like the Bloch
> version better, but it seems clumsier English than need be.
>
> howard
>
>
> Howard Engelskirchen
> he31@verizon.net
>
>
> Mar 17, 2009 07:26:13 AM, ope@lists.csuchico.edu wrote:
>
>
>> The quote is actually from Brecht's 1935 essay, Writing Truth: 5
>> difficulties.
>
>
> Hi Howard:
>
> The first sentence in the "Summary" on page 7 is very similar, but
> not quite the same. I guess it's a matter of a somewhat different
> translation. The source you just gave, btw, appears as an appendix
> in the Eric Bentley ed. version of _Galileo_, the play by Brecht.
>
> Perhaps the lesson of the thread should be 'don't rely exclusively
> on secondary sources if one wants to write the truth'? My mistake.
>
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