The Kraus Project

<p>A great American writer’s confrontation with a great European critic – a personal and intellectual awakening.</p> <p>Karl Kraus: satirist. Controversialist. Forgotten voice of the early twentieth century.</p> <p>Jonathan Franzen: bestseller. Contrarian. One of the greatest novelists working today.</p> <p>Recalling his student days the celebrated author of ‘The Corrections’ and ‘Freedom’ recounts his discovery of Kraus and presents his own translations and annotations of the philosopher’s most famous essays.</p> <p>A pioneer of self-publishing Kraus brilliantly attacked the mass media and the dehumanizing machinery of technology and capitalism. A notoriously difficult writer Kraus has met his match in Franzen: a popular novelist unafraid to voice unpopular opinions. In the extensive footnotes Franzen explains why Kraus is relevant today – while also revealing his own intellectual and personal preoccupations.</p> <p>Painstakingly wrought strikingly original ‘The Kraus Project’ is a feast of thought and literature.</p>