The Kraus Project. Jonathan Franzen

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      First published in Great Britain by Fourth Estate in 2013

      Simultaneously published in the US by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2013

      Copyright © 2013 by Jonathan Franzen

       Footnotes by Paul Reitter copyright © 2013 by Paul Reitter Footnotes by Daniel Kehlmann copyright © 2013 by Daniel Kehlmann

      Jacket design by Rodrigo Corral

       Jacket art by Matt Buck, after the cover for the first issue of Die Fackel

      Jonathan Franzen asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      The original essays and afterwords in this volume are from Karl Kraus's collection Untergang der Welt durch schwarze Magie, ed. Christian Wagenknecht (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1989). "Man frage nicht…" appeared in Die Fackel no. 888, October 1933.

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

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      Source ISBN: 9780007517435

       Ebook Edition © October 2013 ISBN: 9780007517459 Version: 2017-03-28

       Praise

      From the reviews of The Kraus Project:

      Financial Times Book of the Year

      ‘An experimental collage of texts, and all the better for it … The Kraus Project is tremendously readable and is refreshingly skeptical of the cult of digital cool. Franzen’s prose has an appealing briskness and a polemical force’

      Jason Cowley, Financial Times

      ‘Engrossing, highly original … Franzen finds in the unduly neglected Kraus a model of how to provoke readers while at the same time getting them to do some work’

      Edmund Fawcett, New York Times Book Review

      ‘It IS worth it, despite, as well as because of, the difficulties, so congratulations all round … thanks to Franzen, more people will remember him’

      Nicholas Lezard, Evening Standard

      ‘A passionate and concerned work … You can understand why Franzen likes him, and sees a dearth of such elegance today’

      Jonathan Dean, Sunday Times

      TO

      DORIS AVERY

      AND IN MEMORY OF

      GEORGE AVERY