Selected Short Writings
Karl Kraus, Hermann Broch, Elias Canetti, Robert Walser
Karl Kraus author Robert Walser author Elias Canetti author Hermann Broch author Dr Dirck Linck editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:1st Jun '06
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
The literature of the Wiener Moderne exhibits biting social satire and other related aspects, first emanating from Karl Kraus (1874-1936), a prolific writer, difficult to classify, who reminds people of Jonathan Swift. Novelists and essayists Hermann Broch (1886-1951) and Elias Canetti (1905-94), who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981, were likewise marginalized, to a large extent as Jews. Robert Walser (1878-1956) is Swiss, and to a large extent like the other three authors in this collection, had no less a desire to upset the social applecart. Among the works included are substantive selection from Krauss's "The Last Days of Mankind and Aphorisms", Bloch's "The Anarchist," selections from Canetti's "Crowds and Power and Auto-da-Fe", and Walser's "Jakob von Gunten".
'a...collection of short writings showcasing the richness of the Wiener Moderne.' TLS, 15/09/2006 -- Will Stone * Times Literary Supplement *
ISBN: 9780826418012
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 412g
336 pages