Selected Short Writings: Karl Kraus, Hermann Broch, Elias Canetti, Robert WalserKarl Kraus, Dirck Linck 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. > |
Contents
The Last Days of Mankind Act V Scene 5354 | 19 |
HERMANN BROCH | 35 |
Zerlines Tale | 95 |
Studienrat Zachariass Four Speeches | 120 |
ELIAS CANETTI | 147 |
Confucius the Matchmaker | 175 |
Translated by C V Wedgewood | 189 |
The silent house and the empty rooftops | 219 |
Jakob von Gunten | 225 |
Acknowledgments 323 | |
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