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**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 rhetoric of a fading empire. But even though he had a fervent following, which included Franz Kafka and Walter Benjamin, he remained something of a lonely prophet, and few people today are familiar with his work. Luckily, Jonathan Franzen is one of them.In *The Kraus Project*, Franzen, whose "calm, passionate critical authority" has been praised in *The* *New York Times Book Review*, not only presents his definitive new translations of Kraus but annotates them spectacularly, with supplementary notes from the Kraus scholar Paul Reitter and the Austrian author Daniel Kehlmann. Kraus was a notoriously cantankerous and difficult writer, and in Franzen he has found his match: a novelist unafraid to voice unpopular opinions strongly, a critic capable of untangli

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Author

Franzen, Jonathan; Kraus, Karl

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374182212

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Fiction, Philosophy