There is only so much Döblin one can put into a review of Brecht’s letters. I read John Simon’s essay on Brecht in his letters (“The Amoral Superman,” December 1990) with great interest. But since Mr.

For those who look on the arts as a kind of celestial sports competition, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) is up there with Bertolt Brecht for the title of German Poet of the 20 th Century. The standard ...