The Kraus Project Essays By Karl Kraus Franzen Jonathan Reitter by Franzen, Jonathan, Reitter, Paul; Kehlmann, Daniel instant download after payment.

318 pages ; 21 cm, 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. In The Kraus Project, Franzen presents his definitive new translations of Kraus and also annotates them, with supplementary notes from the Kraus scholar Paul Reitter and the Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann. Franzen investigates Kraus's 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