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

Selected Short Writings cover

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