Karl Kraus

A Tragedy in Five Acts

The Last Days of Mankind

Jonathan Franzen

A novelist presents newly translated and annotated works of the Viennese satirist who was celebrated by Franz Kafka for his willingness to express unpopular opinions, including the media's manipulation of reality and the dehumanizing nature of technology. 30,000 first printing.

Essays by Karl Kraus

The Kraus Project

A Karl Kraus Reader

In These Great Times

Karl Kraus: Introduction -- With my narrow horizon -- Riddles out of solutions -- In hollow heads -- In this war we are dealing... -- Not for women but against men -- Lord, forgive them... .

Selected Aphorisms

Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths

the complete text

The last days of mankind

tragedia en cinco actos con prólogo y epílogo

Los últimos días de la humanidad

Schriften / Tragödie in fünf Akten mit Vorspiel und Epilog

Die letzten Tage der Menschheit ist eine "Tragödie in 5 Akten mit Vorspiel und Epilog" von Karl Kraus. Sie ist in den Jahren 1915-1922 als Reaktion auf den Ersten Weltkrieg entstanden. In über 200 nur lose zusammenhängenden Szenen, die auf wahren Quellen beruhen, wird die Unmenschlichkeit und Absurdität des Krieges dargestellt. Das Stück ist einem "Marstheater" zugedacht und ist bisher noch nie komplett aufgeführt worden.

Die letzten Tage der Menschheit

Franzen presents new translations and annotations of the work of early twentieth-century satirist Karl Kraus, who, via his self-published magazine Die Fackel, "attacked the popular media's manipulation of reality, the dehumanizing machinery of technology and consumer capitalism, and the jingoistic rhetoric of a fading empire"--Dust jacket flap

N. 234/34 is: Kraus, Karl. Maximilian Harden. Ein nachruf ... Wien, Die Fackel, 1907 (36 p.).

Die Fackel

No. 234/34 is: Kraus, Karl. Maximilian Harden. Ein nachruf ... Wien, Die Fackel, 1907 (36 p.).

Photogrammetry

ein Lesebuch

Magie der Sprache

The first complete English translation of a far-seeing polemic, written in 1933 by the preeminent German-language satirist, unmasking the Nazi seizure of power "[A] drop-dead analysis of the rhetorical barbarities of the Hitler cult."--Bill Marx, Arts Fuse Austrian satirist and polemicist Karl Kraus's Third Walpurgis Night was written in immediate response to the Nazi seizure of power in 1933 but was withheld from publication for fear of reprisals against Jews trapped in Germany. Acclaimed when finally published by Kösel Verlag in 1952, it is a devastatingly prescient exposure, giving special attention to the regime's corruption of language as masterminded by Joseph Goebbels. Bertolt Brecht wrote to Kraus that, in his indictment of Nazism, "you have disclosed the atrocities of intonation and created an ethics of language." This masterful translation, by the prizewinning translators of Kraus's The Last Days of Mankind, aims for clarity where Kraus had good reason to be cautious and obscure. The Austrian Jewish author Karl Kraus (1874-1936) was the foremost German-language satirist of the twentieth century. As editor of the journal Die Fackel (The Torch) he single-handedly after 1912 conducted a sustained critique of propaganda and the press, expressed through polemical essays, satirical plays, witty aphorisms, and resonant poems.

The Third Walpurgis Night

The first complete English translation of a far-seeing polemic, written in 1933 by the preeminent German-language satirist, unmasking the Nazi seizure of power Now available in English for the first time, Austrian satirist and polemicist Karl Kraus’s Third Walpurgis Night was written in immediate response to the Nazi seizure of power in 1933 but withheld from publication for fear of reprisals against Jews trapped in Germany. Acclaimed when finally published by Kösel Verlag in 1952, it is a devastatingly prescient exposure, giving special attention to the regime’s corruption of language as masterminded by Joseph Goebbels. Bertolt Brecht wrote to Kraus that, in his indictment of Nazism, “You have disclosed the atrocities of intonation and created an ethics of language.” This masterful translation, by the prizewinning translators of Kraus’s The Last Days of Mankind, aims for clarity where Kraus had good reason to be cautious and obscure.

The Complete Text

phantastisches Versspiel in drei Akten auf Grundlage der "Vogel" von Aristophanes (mit Beibehaltung einiger Stellen der Chöre in der Schinck'schen Ubersetzung)

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