A review by stierwood
Galileo by Bertolt Brecht

challenging informative medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.5

I studied Brecht’s theories of theatre and social change in a Spanish culture class about theatre, so I was excited to actually get to read his work when I found this little book used. It did what it needed to do. The messages were clear and accessible (of big importance to Brecht) and I liked the parallels of learning new things about the physical structure of the universe causing danger in threatening “truths” about social structure. The question of center, margin, and movement is shown in this book to be a dangerous one to existing social structures, not even in the 1600s when Galileo lived, but in the 1930s when Brecht lived and 2023 when we are living now. Was also cool to read a burned book. The Nazis hated this guy. Jewish, Marxist… it felt powerful to hold a piece of resistance in my hands. 

PS; i could not stop staring at the cover i think he is so hot oops