The Kraus project : essays

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.

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• ISBN: 9780007518241 ; 0007518242
• Dimensions: 22 cm
• Extent: 318 S.
• Edition: Bilingual ed.
• Notes: Text dt. und engl.

Classification and Topics

• Keyword: Kraus, Karl ; Heine, Heinrich ; Nestroy, Johann

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): London
• (who): Fourth Estate
• (when): 2013
• Creator: Kraus, Karl
• Contributor: Franzen, Jonathan

Further information

• Table of contents: https://d-nb.info/104870906X/04
• Rights: Bei diesem Objekt liegt nur das Inhaltsverzeichnis digital vor. Der Zugriff darauf ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 11.06.2025, 1:35 PM CEST