Selected Short Writings: Karl Kraus, Hermann Broch, Elias Canetti, Robert Walser (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780826418012)

- A unique collection of German-language writers bound by a Bohemian sensibility

- Canetti is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1981)

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.

Author: Karl Kraus, Herman Broch, Elias Canetti
ISBN-10: 0826418015
ISBN-13: 9780826418012
Publisher: Continuum
Language: English
Published: 05/12/2006
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.48w x 0.98d