The Kraus project : essays : a bilingual edition / by Karl Kraus ; translated and annotated by Jonathan Franzen ; with assistance and additional notes from Paul Reitter and Daniel Kehlmann.

By:

Kraus, Karl, 1874-1936

Contributor(s):

Franzen, Jonathan

Language: English Original language: German Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013Edition: First editionDescription: 318 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780374182212

Subject(s):

German language materials

Genre/Form:

Essays.

DDC classification:

838.91209 23

LOC classification:

PT2621.R27 A2 2013

Contents:

Texts by Karl Kraus -- Heine and the consequences -- Nestroy and posterity -- Afterword to Heine and the consequences -- Between two strains of life: final word -- You shouldn't ask.

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.

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Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	NMC Library	Stacks	PT2621 .R27 A2 2013	1	Available		33039001313351

Texts by Karl Kraus -- Heine and the consequences -- Nestroy and posterity -- Afterword to Heine and the consequences -- Between two strains of life: final word -- You shouldn't ask.

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.