The Kraus Project

Paperback. Pub Date :2011-08-01 Pages: 336 Language: English 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 'The Kraus Project'. 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...