CONTENTS
Seven Plays
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Author: Toller Ernst (1893-1939)
Year: 1934
The days when society indulgently tolerated the artist as a sort of luxury unrelated to the real business of living, as a man whose moods were not to be taken seriously and whose weapons were aimed at empty air, were good neither for art nor for the artist... He degenerated into the servant of his rulers; he became one voice among many, whose sole aim was to distract the mind from present reality. He was concerned not with illuminating the all-too-short span of time allotted to the citizens of this earth, but with killing it. For this mad question, "What can I do to kill time?" was the dominating question of the age; an age when the few who were well fed were hard put to it to find interests for their leisure, and when the many who were hungry were still more hard put to it to find a moment of leisure for themselves...
Introduction to Seven Plays
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