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The Last Days of Mankind KARL KRAUS. T HE C OM PLE T E T E XT T R ANSLAT E D BY F RE D BRI DG HAM AND EDWARD TIMMS W IT H A G LOSSARY AND I NDE X. YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS. NEW HAVEN & LONDON. The Margellos World Republic of Letters is dedicated to making literary works from around the
Kraus's iconic WWI drama, a satirical indictment of the glory of war, now in English in its entirety for the first time. One hundred years after Austrian satirist Karl Kraus began writing his dramatic masterpiece, The Last Days of Mankind remains as powerfully relevant as the day it was first published. Kraus's play enacts the
The Last Days of Mankind is a satirical play by Karl Kraus. It is considered one of the most important of Kraus' works. One third of the play is drawn from documentary sources and is highly realistic, except the final scenes which are of expressionist genre. Notes and references[edit]. Jump up ^ Knight, Charles A. (2004)
8 Jan 2017 The Last Days of Mankind (play). By Ari Linden. The Last Days of Mankind (Die letzten Tage der Menschheit) is the major work by Vienna's most prolific satirist, Karl Kraus. Published in full in 1922, the drama ridicules the interconnected ills of modernity Kraus saw as fueling the war machine: nationalism,.
Karl Kraus - the Last Days of Mankind (the Complete Text) - Free ebook download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read book online for free. The subject of Kraus's play is the tragedy of mankind, bent on self-destruction by the methods of modern warfare, while still clinging to outdated ideals of military heroism and
Karl Kraus, a Jewish convert to Catholicism, brooked ambiguity along with apocalyptic visions in his powerful five-act play, Die letzten Tage der Menschheit (1915–1922). Kraus was not the only contemporary poet to whom Webern turned. In the same month that he completed “Der Tag ist vergangen," Webern sketched but

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