Bibliograph

The Kraus project, essays by Karl Kraus ; translated and edited by Jonathan Franzen ; with assistance and additional notes from Paul Reitter and Daniel Kehlmann

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The Kraus project, essays by Karl Kraus ; translated and edited by Jonathan Franzen ; with assistance and additional notes from Paul Reitter and Daniel Kehlmann

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Kraus project

Oclc number

827256960

Responsibility statement

essays by Karl Kraus ; translated and edited by Jonathan Franzen ; with assistance and additional notes from Paul Reitter and Daniel Kehlmann

Summary

Franzen presents new translations and annotations of the work of early twentieth-century satirist Karl Kraus, who, via his self-published magazine Die Fackel, "attacked the popular media's manipulation of reality, the dehumanizing machinery of technology and consumer capitalism, and the jingoistic rhetoric of a fading empire"--Dust jacket flap

Table Of Contents

Heine and the consequences (1910) -- Nestroy and posterity (1912) -- Afterword to Heine and the consequences (1911) -- Between two strains of life: final word (1917) -- Let no one ask... (1934)

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