Kraus Project - Couverture souple

FRANZEN, JONATHAN

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1250056039 ISBN 13 : 9781250056030

Editeur : Picador Paper, 2014

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.

Biographie de l'auteur

JONATHAN FRANZEN is the author of four novels, The Twenty-Seventh City, Strong Motion, The Corrections (winner of the 2001 National Book Award for Fiction) and the #1 international bestseller Freedom; two collections of essays, How to Be Alone and Farther Away; and a personal history, The Discomfort Zone. In 2010, TIME magazine named him the “Great American Novelist.” Franzen lives in New York City, New York, and Santa Cruz, California.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Picador Paper
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1250056039
• ISBN 13: 9781250056030
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336