Selected Short Writings (Paperback)

Karl Kraus

ISBN 10: 0826418015 / ISBN 13: 9780826418012

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London, 2006

Paperback. 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. Includes selections from Krauss's "The Last Days of Mankind and Aphorisms", Bloch's "The Anarchist," Canetti's "Crowds and Power and Auto-da-Fe", and Walser's "Jakob von Gunten". Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780826418012

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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.

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About the Author: Dirck Linck is working in the field of gay and lesbian literary studies of the 19th and 20th centuries. He is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the Freie Universitat, Berlin, Germany.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Selected Short Writings (Paperback)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London
Publication Date: 2006
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new