The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus - Couverture rigide

Franzen, Jonathan; Kraus, Karl

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0374182213 ISBN 13 : 9780374182212

Editeur : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013

Synopsis

Book by Franzen Jonathan Kraus Karl

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Strikingly original in form, The Kraus Project is a feast of thought, passion and literature.

A hundred years ago, the writings of Viennese satirist Karl Krauswere among the most penetrating and prophetic in Europe: arelentless criticism 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 Kraus’s followers included Franz Kafka and Walter Benjamin, he remained something of alonely 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 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, and a critic capable of untangling Kraus’s often dense arguments to reveal their relevance to contemporary America.

Présentation de l'éditeur

A great American writer s confrontation with a great European critic a personal and intellectual awakening.

Karl Kraus: satirist. Controversialist. Forgotten voice of the early twentieth century.

Jonathan Franzen: bestseller. Contrarian. One of the greatest novelists working today.

Recalling his student days, the celebrated author of The Corrections and Freedom recounts his discovery of Kraus and presents his own translations and annotations of the philosopher s most famous essays.

A pioneer of self-publishing, Kraus brilliantly attacked the mass media and the dehumanizing machinery of technology and capitalism. A notoriously difficult writer, Kraus has met his match in Franzen: a popular novelist unafraid to voice unpopular opinions. In the extensive footnotes Franzen explains why Kraus is relevant today while also revealing his own intellectual and personal preoccupations.

Painstakingly wrought, strikingly original, The Kraus Project is a feast of thought and literature.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0374182213
• ISBN 13: 9780374182212
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 336