{"product_id":"the-third-walpurgis-night-karl-kraus-9780300236002","title":"The Third Walpurgis Night: The Complete Text","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first complete English translation of a far-seeing polemic, written in 1933 by the preeminent German-language satirist, unmasking the Nazi seizure of power\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[A] drop-dead analysis of the rhetorical barbarities of the Hitler cult.\"--Bill Marx, \u003ci\u003eArts Fuse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Austrian satirist and polemicist Karl Kraus's \u003ci\u003eThird Walpurgis Night\u003c\/i\u003e was written in immediate response to the Nazi seizure of power in 1933 but was withheld from publication for fear of reprisals against Jews trapped in Germany. Acclaimed when finally published by Kösel Verlag in 1952, it is a devastatingly prescient exposure, giving special attention to the regime's corruption of language as masterminded by Joseph Goebbels. Bertolt Brecht wrote to Kraus that, in his indictment of Nazism, \"you have disclosed the atrocities of intonation and created an ethics of language.\" This masterful translation, by the prizewinning translators of Kraus's \u003ci\u003eThe Last Days of Mankind\u003c\/i\u003e, aims for clarity where Kraus had good reason to be cautious and obscure. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The Austrian Jewish author Karl Kraus (1874-1936) was the foremost German-language satirist of the twentieth century. As editor of the journal \u003ci\u003eDie Fackel \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eThe Torch\u003c\/i\u003e) he single-handedly after 1912 conducted a sustained critique of propaganda and the press, expressed through polemical essays, satirical plays, witty aphorisms, and resonant poems.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Karl Kraus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 030023600X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300236002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/23\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2021","brand":"Karl Kraus","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086469869823,"sku":"9780300236002","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7bb195af-4e89-4ff8-8fdb-11dada558e65.jpg?v=1769094849","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-third-walpurgis-night-karl-kraus-9780300236002","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}