The Kraus Project

A great American writer's confrontation with a great European critic - a personal and intellectual awakening.

About the author

Jonathan Franzen’s work includes four novels (The Twenty-Seventh City, Strong Motion, The Corrections, Freedom), two collections of essays (Farther Away, How To Be Alone), a memoir (The Discomfort Zone), and, most recently, The Kraus Project. He is recognised as one of the best American writers of our age and has won many awards. He lives in New York City and Santa Cruz, California.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Franzen, Karl Kraus
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.08.2014
• EAN: 9780007517442
• ISBN: 978-0-00-751744-2
• No. of pages: 318
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Fourth Estate
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Österreichische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Deutsche Belletristik / Essay, Feuilleton, Reportage, Amerikanische Belletristik / Essay, Feuilleton, Reportage, Englische Belletristik / Fantasy