The Kraus Project
Autor Jonathan Franzenen Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 sep 2014
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 his definitive new translations of Kraus but also annotates them spectacularly, with supplementary notes from the Kraus scholar Paul Reitter and the Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann. Kraus was a notoriously cantankerous and difficult author, and in Franzen he has found his match: a novelist unafraid to voice unpopular opinions strongly, a critic capable of untangling Kraus's often dense arguments to reveal their relevance to contemporary America. Interwoven with Franzen's survey of today's cultural and technological landscape is an intensely personal recollection of the author's first year out of college, when he fell in love with Kraus.
Painstakingly wrought, strikingly original in form, "The Kraus Project" is a feast of thought, passion, and literature.
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ISBN-10: 1250056039
Pagini: 318
Dimensiuni: 137 x 208 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Picador USA
Colecția Picador
Notă biografică
Cuprins
Heine and the Consequences (1910)
Nestroy and Posterity (1912)
Afterword to "Heine and the Consequences" (1911)
Between two Strains of Life: Final Word (1917)
Let No One Ask (1934)