Last Days of Mankind - The Complete Text

Hailed by Bertolt Brecht as the great dramatic work of Modernism, this celebrated WWI drama is a satirical indictment of the glory of war. Translated into English in its entirety for the first time, the innovative play remains fully relevant a century after it was written.

About the author

The Austrian Jewish author Karl Kraus (1874-1936) was the foremost German-language satirist of the twentieth century. As editor of the journal Die Fackel (The Torch) he conducted a sustained critique of propaganda and the press, expressed through polemical essays, witty aphorisms, and resonant poems. Edward Timms, founding director of the University of Sussex Centre for German-Jewish Studies, is best known for his two-volume study Karl Kraus--Apocalyptic Satirist. The title of his memoirs, Taking Up the Torch, reflects his long-standing interest in Kraus's journal. Fred Bridgham is the author of wide-ranging studies in German literature, history, and the history of ideas. His translations of lieder and opera include Hans Werner Henze's The Prince of Homburg for performance by English National Opera.

Summary

Kraus’s iconic World War I drama, a satirical indictment of the glory of war, now in English in its entirety for the first time

Product details

• Authors: Fred Bridgham, Karl Kraus, KRAUS KARL, Edward Timms
• Assisted by: Fred Bridgham (Translation), Bridgham Fred (Translation), Edward Timms (Translation)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.02.2023
• EAN: 9780300271171
• ISBN: 978-0-300-27117-1
• No. of pages: 672
• Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters; Margellos World Republic of Le
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary