The Gorgons

On the pages of this book, biographies intertwine and collide, linking the lives of writers, actors, musicians, painters, men, women, lovers, police, soldiers, executioners, victims and murderers, the living and the dead. Brecht, Beuys, Django, and others, known and unknown, real and unreal, of diverse origin and mother tongues, trapped in a time bound by world wars, both destructive and "cold". A time they bitterly, though unsuccessfully, resisted, as it transformed into a vortex that drew them in with eveOn the pages of this book, biographies intertwine and collide, linking the lives of writers, actors, musicians, painters, men, women, lovers, police, soldiers, executioners, victims and murderers, the living and the dead. Brecht, Beuys, Django, and others, known and unknown, real and unreal, of diverse origin and mother tongues, trapped in a time bound by world wars, both destructive and "cold". A time they bitterly, though unsuccessfully, resisted, as it transformed into a vortex that drew them in with