Excerpt from Die Fackel: April, 1916Wehe, w'ehe über die Tagespresse! Käme Christus jetzt zur Welt, so nähme er, so wahr ich lebe, nicht Hohepriester aufs Korn, sondern die Journalisten!Gott im Himmel weiß Blutdurst ist meiner Seele fremd, und eine Vorstellung von einer Verantwortung vor Gott glaube ich auch in furchtbarem Grade zu haben: aber den noch, dennoch wollte ich im Namen Gottes die Verantwortung auf mich nehmen, Feuer zu kommandieren, wenn ich mich nur zu vor mit der ängstlichsten, gewissenhafte sten Sorgfalt vergewissert hätte, daß sich vor den Gewehrläufen kein einziger anderer Mensch, ja auch kein einziges anderes lebendes Wesen befände als - Journalisten.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Die Fackel: April, 1916 (Classic Reprint)

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Literature & Fiction

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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 untangling Kraus's often dense arguments to reveal their relevance to contemporary America.
While Kraus is lampooning the iconic German poet and essayist Heinrich Heine and celebrating his own literary hero, the Austrian playwright Johann Nestroy, Franzen is annotating Kraus the way Kraus annotated others, surveying today's cultural and technological landscape with fearsome clarity, and giving us a deeply personal recollection of his first year out of college, when he fell in love with Kraus's work. Painstakingly wrought, strikingly original in form, The Kraus Project is a feast of thought, passion, and literature.

The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus (English and German Edition)

Humor & Satire

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

States Effects and Operations: Fundamental Notions of Quantum Theory (Lecture Notes in Physics)

Science & Math

Physics

Springer, Verlag

The last days of mankind;: A tragedy in five acts

F. Ungar Pub. Co.

Karl Kraus (1874 - 1936) was an Austrian writer and journalist, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet. He directed his satire at the press, German culture, and German and Austrian politics. The Austrian author Stefan Zweig once called Kraus "the master of venomous ridicule" (der Meister des giftigen Spotts).

No Compromise: Selected Writings of Karl Kraus

History & Criticism

Frederick Ungar Pub. Co.

• A unique collection of German-language writers bound by a Bohemian sensibility• Canetti is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1981)The literature of the Wiener Moderne exhibits biting social satire and other related aspects, first emanating from Karl Kraus (1874-1936), a prolific writer, difficult to classify, who reminds people of Jonathan Swift. Novelists and essayists Hermann Broch (1886-1951) and Elias Canetti (1905-94), who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981, were likewise marginalized, to a large extent as Jews. Robert Walser (1878-1956) is Swiss, and to a large extent like the other three authors in this collection, had no less a desire to upset the social applecart. Among the works included are substantive selection from Krauss's The Last Days of Mankind and Aphorisms, Bloch's "The Anarchist," selections from Canetti's Crowds and Power and Auto-da-Fe, and Walser's Jakob von Gunten.

Selected Short Writings: Karl Kraus, Hermann Broch, Elias Canetti, Robert Walser (German Library)

elias-canetti

Robert Walser

HERMANN BROCH

Continuum

Half-Truths & One-&-A-Half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Carcanet

Excerpt from Die Fackel, Vol. 9: 15. Jänner 1908 Dem Erotiker wird das Merkmal des Geschlechts nie Anziehung, stets Hemmung. Auch das weibliche Merkmal. Damm kann er zum Knaben wie zum Weib tendieren. Den durchaus Homosexuellen zieht das Merkmal des Mannes an, gerade so wie den hyper sexuellen >normalen das Merkmal des Weibes als solches anzieht. Jack the ripper ist also viel normaler als Sokrates. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Die Fackel, Vol. 9: 15. Jänner 1908 (Classic Reprint) (German Edition)

Pro domo et mundo.

Poetry

München, Albert Langen, 1912

Aphorismen (German Edition)

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Suhrkamp

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