Starting from the analysis of the metaphorology linked to the thematic field of the conflict, as it is revealed in the fight between the two protagonists of "Im Dickicht der Städte", the author highlights how in Brechtian drama determinate processes of linguistic construction tend towards the recovery, on a formal level, of the civilisation divide which is evident, on a thematic level, in the inhumanity of the fight that the two protagonists engage. Particular attention is paid to the incidence that these aspects have on interlinguistic and intralinguistic translation strategies, on the basis of the staging directed in 1997 by Roberto Ciulli (in Müllheim an der Rühr) and by Federico Tiezzi (in Florence).
