The Tailor of Ulm

The Tailor of Ulm

Lucio Magri in the New Left Review:

A first task for the new era, then, is to draw up a balance sheet—in a spirit of truth, whatever the convictions with which one begins and the conclusions at which one arrives; without fabricating facts, without offering excuses or separating lived experience from its context… In sum, to recompose the thread of a titanic undertaking and dramatic decline, not seeking to make allowances or to pursue an impossible neutrality, but aiming at an approximation to the truth.

(Via No Useless Leniency, where you can find a copy of Brecht’s poem.)