{"product_id":"kraus-project-9781443423632","title":"Kraus Project","description":"\u003cp\u003e  • Publisher: Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - German\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStrikingly original in form, \u003cem\u003eThe Kraus Project\u003c\/em\u003e is a feast of thought, passion and literature. A hundred years ago, the writings of Viennese satirist Karl Kraus were among the most penetrating and prophetic in Europe-a relentless criticism 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 Kraus's 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Kraus Project\u003c\/em\u003e, Franzen not only presents his definitive new translations of Kraus but annotates them spectacularly, with supplementary notes from the Kraus scholar Paul Reitter and the Austrian\/German writer Daniel Kehlmann. Kraus was a notoriously cantankerous and difficult author, and in Franzen he has found his match: a novelist unafraid to strongly voice unpopular opinions, and a critic capable of untangling Kraus's often dense arguments to reveal their relevance to contemporary America.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47779812016279,"sku":"9781443423632","price":1401.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781443423632.webp?v=1778039617","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/kraus-project-9781443423632","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}