by Jonathan Franzen · China Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007518241
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«The Kraus Project» is the essay book by Karl Kraus translated and annotated by Jonathan Franzen, published by China Press in paperback (336 pages).
Franzen presents and annotates his English translations of essays by the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus, who a century ago criticised media manipulation, dehumanising technology, consumerism and the patriotic rhetoric of a decaying empire. The volume includes notes by Paul Reitter and Daniel Kehlmann, and shows the affinity between Franzen and Kraus.
The book was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in the criticism category and on the longlist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.
For readers of essays and literary criticism, with an interest in Central European literature and the work of Karl Kraus.
Jonathan Earl Franzen is an American novelist and essayist. His 2001 novel The Corrections drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award, was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist, earned a James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. His novel Freedom (2010) garnered similar praise and led to an appearance on the cover of Time magazine alongside the headline "Great American Novelist". Franzen's latest novel Crossroads was published in 2021, and is the first in a projected trilogy.
