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The Kraus Project

By: Jonathan Franzen

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A great American writerโ€™s confrontation with a great European critic โ€“ 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 mediaโ€™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 Kraus has found his match: a novelist unafraid to voice unpopular opinions strongly, a critic capable of untangling Krausโ€™s often dense arguments.

Painstakingly wrought, strikingly original in form, The Kraus Project is a feast of thought, passion and literature. ISBN:9780007517442

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Weight 320 g
Dimensions 197 × 128 × 25 mm
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ISBN 9780007517442