A great American writer's confrontation with a great European
critic - a personal and intellectual awakening. Karl Kraus:
satirist. Controversialist. Forgotten voice of the early twentieth
century. Jonathan Franzen: bestseller. Contrarian. One of the
greatest novelists working today. Recalling his student days, the
celebrated author of 'The Corrections' and 'Freedom' recounts his
discovery of Kraus and presents his own translations and
annotations of the philosopher's most famous essays. A pioneer of
self-publishing, Kraus brilliantly attacked the mass media and the
dehumanizing machinery of technology and capitalism. A notoriously
difficult writer, Kraus has met his match in Franzen: a popular
novelist unafraid to voice unpopular opinions. In the extensive
footnotes Franzen explains why Kraus is relevant today - while also
revealing his own intellectual and personal preoccupations.
Painstakingly wrought, strikingly original, 'The Kraus Project' is
a feast of thought and literature.
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