Kraus's iconic WWI drama, a satirical indictment of the glory of
war, now in English in its entirety for the first time "[A] superb
translation."-Bill Marx, Arts Fuse One hundred years after Austrian
satirist Karl Kraus began writing his dramatic masterpiece, The
Last Days of Mankind remains as powerfully relevant as the day it
was first published. Kraus's play enacts the tragic trajectory of
the First World War, when mankind raced toward self-destruction by
methods of modern warfare while extolling the glory and ignoring
the horror of an allegedly "defensive" war. This volume is the
first to present a complete English translation of Kraus's towering
work, filling a major gap in the availability of Viennese
literature from the era of the War to End All Wars. Bertolt Brecht
hailed The Last Days as the masterpiece of Viennese modernism. In
the apocalyptic drama Kraus constructs a textual collage, blending
actual quotations from the Austrian army's call to arms, people's
responses, political speeches, newspaper editorials, and a range of
other sources. Seasoning the drama with comic invention and
satirical verse, Kraus reveals how bungled diplomacy, greedy
profiteers, Big Business complicity, gullible newsreaders, and,
above all, the sloganizing of the press brought down the
Austro-Hungarian Empire. In the dramatization of sensationalized
news reports, inurement to atrocities, and openness to war as
remedy, today's readers will hear the echo of the fateful voices
Kraus recorded as his homeland descended into self-destruction.
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