The Kraus project
Kraus, Karl, 1874-19362013
Book
A great American writer's confrontation with a great European critic - a personal and intellectual awakening. A hundred years ago, the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus was among the most penetrating and prophetic writers in Europe: a relentless critic of the popular media's manipulation of reality, the dehumanizing machinery of technology and consumerism, and the jingoistic rhetoric of a fading empire. But even though his followers included Franz Kafka and Walter Benjamin, he remained something of a lonely prophet, and few people today are familiar with his work. Thankfully, Jonathan Franzen is one of them. In this book, Franzen not only presents and annotates his definitive new translations of Kraus, with supplementary notes from the Kraus scholar Paul Reitter and the Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann. In Franzen Kraus has found his match: a novelist unafraid to voice unpopular opinions strongly, a critic capable of untangling Kraus's often dense arguments. Painstakingly wrought, strikingly original in form, this is a feast of thought, passion and literature.
Main title:
The Kraus project / essays by Karl Kraus ; translated and annotated by Jonathan Franzen with assistance and additional notes from Paul Reitter and Daniel Kehlmann.
Work:
Edition:
Bilingual edition.
Imprint:
London : Fourth Estate, 2013, c2013.London : Fourth Estate, 2013.Ù2013.
Collation:
318 pages ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Translated from the German.Includes bibliographical references.In English and German.
ISBN:
97800075182419780007518241 (paperback)9780007517435 (hardback)
Dewey class:
838.91209838.912
Language:
EnglishGerman
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BRN:
125325
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| Library at the Dock | -Literature | LITER 838.912 KRAU | Available |