The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus

by Jonathan Franzen and Karl Kraus

Book Overview

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 technology and consumer capitalism, and the jingoistic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374182213
• ISBN13: 9780374182212
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.4"