The kraus project

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Sinopse

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 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. Thankfully, Jonathan Franzen is one of them.In ‘The Kraus Project’, Franzen not only presents and annotates his definitive new translations of Kraus, with supplementary notes from the Kraus scholar Paul Reitter and the Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann. In Franzen Kraus has found his match: a novelist unafraid to voice unpopular opinions strongly, a critic capable of untangling Kraus’s often dense arguments.Painstakingly wrought, strikingly original in form, ‘The Kraus Project’ is a feast of thought, passion and literature.

Participantes

Autor: Jonathan Franzen | Karl Kraus

Autor

JONATHAN FRANZEN

Jonathan Franzen nasceu em Western Springs, Illinois, em 1959. É autor dos romances The twenty-seventh city e Strong motion. Colabora com as revistas The New Yorker e Harper's. Foi eleito pela revista literária Granta um dos vinte melhores jovens romancistas americanos. Polêmico, recusou-se a ir ao talk show de Oprah Winfrey, um dos programas de TV de maior audiência dos Estados Unidos, para divulgar o romance As correções.