Third Walpurgis Night - The Complete Text

"Now available in English for the first time, Austrian satirist and polemicist Karl Kraus's Third Walpurgis Night was written in immediate response to the Nazi seizure of power in 1933 but withheld from publication for fear of reprisals against Jews trapped in Germany. Acclaimed when finally published by Kèosel Verlag in 1952, it is a devastatingly prescient exposure, giving special attention to the regime's corruption of language as masterminded by Joseph Goebbels. Bertolt Brecht wrote to Kraus that, in his indictment of Nazism, "You have disclosed the atrocities of intonation and created an ethics of language." This masterful translation, by the prizewinning translators of Kraus's The Last Days of Mankind, aims for clarity where Kraus had good reason to be cautious and obscure"--

About the author

Karl Kraus (1874-1936) was the preeminent German-language satirist, who conducted a sustained critique, notably of propaganda and the press, in his Viennese journal Die Fackel. Translators Fred Bridgham and the late Edward Timms were awarded the MLA Scaglione Prize for their translation of Kraus's The Last Days of Mankind.

Product details

• Authors: Karl Kraus, Kraus Karl
• Assisted by: Perloff Marjorie (Foreword), Fred Bridgham (Translation), Bridgham Fred (Translation), Edward Timms (Translation)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9780300236002
• ISBN: 978-0-300-23600-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters; Margellos World Republic of Le; World Republic of Letters (Yale); World Republic of Letters
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, HISTORY / World, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Political science & theory, Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship, General and world history, Political science and theory, Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship