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Painstakingly wrought, strikingly original in form,The Kraus Project is a feast of thought, passion, and literature.

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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 farsighted writers in Europe. In his self-published magazine, Die Fackel, Kraus brilliantly attacked the popular media's manipulation of reality, the dehumanizing machinery of techlogy and consumer capitalism, and the jingoistic rhetoric of a fading empire. But even though he had a fervent following, which included Franz Kafka and Walter Benjamin, he remained something of a lonely prophet, and few people today are familiar with his work. Luckily, Jonathan Franzen is one of them.In The Kraus Project, Franzen, whose calm, passionate critical authority has been praised in The New York Times Book Review, t only presents his definitive new translations of Kraus but antates them spectacularly, with supplementary tes from the Kraus scholar Paul Reitter and the Austrian author Daniel Kehlmann. Kraus was a toriously cantankerous and difficult writer, and in Franzen he has found his match: a velist unafraid to voice unpopular opinions strongly, a critic capable of untangling Kraus's often dense arguments to reveal their relevance to contemporary America.While Kraus is lampooning the iconic German poet and essayist Heinrich Heine and celebrating his own literary hero, the Austrian playwright Johann Nestroy, Franzen is antating Kraus the way Kraus antated others, surveying today's cultural and techlogical landscape with fearsome clarity, and giving us a deeply personal recollection of his first year out of college, when he fell in love with Kraus's work. Painstakingly wrought, strikingly original in form, The Kraus Project is a feast of thought, passion, and literature.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN-10
0374182213
ISBN-13
9780374182212
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Karl Kraus, Jonathan Franzen
Format
Hardback, Sewn,Cloth over Boards,With Dust Jacket
Language
German
Topic
Anthologies

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Author Biography
Jonathan Franzen is the author of four novels ( Freedom,The Corrections,Strong Motion, and The Twenty-Seventh City ), two collections of essays ( Farther Away and How to Be Alone ), and a personal history ( The Discomfort Zone ), and the translator of Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening, all published by FSG. He lives in New York City and Santa Cruz, California. Karl Kraus (1874 - 1936) was an Austrian satirist, playwright, poet, aphorist, and journalist. From 1899 until his death, he published the literary and political review Die Fackel.
Date of Publication
01/10/2013
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Annotated Edition
Country of Publication
United States

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