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Paperback. Pub Date :2011-08-01 Pages: 336 Language: English A great American writer's confrontation with a great European critic - a personal and intellectual awakening.A hundred years ago. the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus was among the most penetrating and prophetic writers in Europe: a relentless critic of the popular media's manipulation of reality. the dehumanizing machinery of technology and consumerism. and the jingoistic rhetoric of a fading empire But even though his followers included Franz Kafka and Walter Benjamin. he remained something of a lonely. prophet. and few people today are familiar with his work. Thankfully. Jonathan Franzen is one of them.In 'The Kraus Project'. Franzen not only presents and annotates his definitive new translations of Kraus. with supplementary notes from the Kraus scholar Paul Reitter and the Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann In Franzen...
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"A literary genius for our time." ―Jonathan Jones, The Guardian
"Franzen is arguably America's greatest living novelist . . . He writes continually about writing and reading, luxuriating in language and sticking up for literature for literature's sake." ―Paul Clements, The Daily Telegraph
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"Little contends with Franzen's prose. He writes behemoth sentences, graceful, technical mini-wonders that read as easily as his most colloquial quips . . . Franzen never feels more lucid than when assessing―or more often championing―texts that have taken him by the lapels." ―Sean Hoen, Paste
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JONATHAN FRANZEN is the author of four novels, The Twenty-Seventh City, Strong Motion, The Corrections (winner of the 2001 National Book Award for Fiction) and the #1 international bestseller Freedom; two collections of essays, How to Be Alone and Farther Away; and a personal history, The Discomfort Zone. In 2010, TIME magazine named him the “Great American Novelist.” Franzen lives in New York City, New York, and Santa Cruz, California.
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- PublisherChina Press
- Publication date2013
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- ISBN 13 9780007518241
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