It wasn't even on my list the other evening of books I am actively not reading, but this morning I finished off Bertolt Brecht's Die Dreigroschenoper, The Threepenny Opera, which arrived in the mail yesterday. My colleague, Dr. Esh, assigned it in East Meets West, and since I had never read it, I figured now was the time.
The extent of my previous acquaintance with the play was Bobby Darin's classic English version of "Mack the Knife."
Actually, I had never read anything at all by Brecht before. I admit that I generally prefer my social criticism to be of the non-Marxist variety. But it was nevertheless an interesting play.
Now that I have actively read this, I can get back to actively not reading all those other books.
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