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-'''Karl Kraus''' (April 28, 1874 – June 12, 1936) was an [[Austria]]n [[German literature|writer]] and [[journalism|journalist]], known as a [[satirist]], essayist, [[aphorism|aphorist]], playwright and poet. He is regarded as one of the foremost German-language satirists of the 20th century, especially for his witty criticism of the press, [[Germany|German]] culture, and German and Austrian politics.+'''Karl Kraus''' (April 28, 1874 – June 12, 1936) was an [[Austrian writer]] and [[journalism|journalist]], known as a [[satirist]], essayist, [[aphorism|aphorist]], playwright and poet. He is regarded as one of the foremost German-language satirists of the 20th century, especially for his witty criticism of the press, [[Germany|German]] culture, and German and Austrian politics.
== Selected works == == Selected works ==

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Karl Kraus (April 28, 1874 – June 12, 1936) was an Austrian writer and journalist, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet. He is regarded as one of the foremost German-language satirists of the 20th century, especially for his witty criticism of the press, German culture, and German and Austrian politics.

Selected works

  • Die demolierte Literatur [Demolished Literature] (1897)
  • Eine Krone für Zion [A Crown for Zion] (1898)
  • Sittlichkeit und Kriminalität [Morality and Criminal Justice] (1908)
  • Sprüche und Widersprüche [Sayings and Contradictions] (1909)
  • Die chinesische Mauer [The Wall of China] (1910)
  • Pro domo et mundo [For Home and for the World] (1912)
  • Nestroy und die Nachwelt [ Nestroy and Posterity](1913)
  • Worte in Versen (1916–30)
  • Die letzten Tage der Menschheit (1918)
  • Weltgericht [World Court] (1919)
  • Nachts [At Night] (1919)
  • Untergang der Welt durch schwarze Magie [The End of the World Through Black Magic](1922)
  • Literatur (Literature) (1921)
  • Traumstück [Dream Piece] (1922)
  • Die letzten Tage der Menschheit: Tragödie in fünf Akten mit Vorspiel und Epilog [The Last Days of Mankind: Tragedy in Five Acts with Preamble and Epilogue] (1922)
  • Wolkenkuckucksheim [Cloud Cuckoo Land] (1923)
  • Traumtheater [Dream Theatre] (1924)
  • Epigramme [Epigrams] (1927)
  • Die Unüberwindlichen [The Insurmountables] (1928)
  • Literatur und Lüge [Literature and Lies] (1929)
  • Shakespeares Sonette (1933)
  • Die Sprache [Language] (posthumous, 1937)
  • Die dritte Walpurgisnacht [The Third Walpurgis Night] (posthumous, 1952)

Some work has been re-issued in recent years:

Works in English translation

  • The Last Days of Mankind: a Tragedy in Five Acts (1974), an abridgement tr. Alexander Gode and Sue Allen Wright
  • In These Great Times: A Karl Kraus Reader (1984), ed. Harry Zohn, contains translated excerpts from Die Fackel, including poems with the original German text alongside, and a drastically abridged translation of The Last Days of Mankind.
  • Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus' Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry (1990) by Thomas Szasz contains Szasz's translations of several of Kraus' articles and aphorisms on psychiatry and psychoanalysis.
  • Half Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths: selected aphorisms (1990) translated by Hary Zohn. Chicago ISBN 0226452689.
  • Dicta and Contradicta, tr. Jonathan McVity (2001), a collection of aphorisms.


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