TY - BOOK AU - Kraus,Karl AU - Franzen,Jonathan TI - The Kraus project: essays : a bilingual edition SN - 9780374182212 AV - PT2621.R27 A2 2013 U1 - 838.91209 23 PY - 2013/// CY - New York PB - Farrar, Straus and Giroux KW - German language materials KW - local KW - Essays N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -