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In These Great Times

Karl Kraus

Translated by Harry Zohn

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Categories: 20th Century, German
Imprint: Lives and Letters
Publisher: Carcanet Press
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    Kraus was born into a wealthy Jewish family in Jičín, Bohemia (now the Czech Republic) before the family moved to Vienna in 1877. Kraus enrolled as a law student at the University of Vienna in 1892. On April 1st 1899, Kraus founded his own satirical newspaper, Die Fackel (The Torch). Kraus’s ... read more
    Praise for Karl Kraus '€˜When the age died by its own hand, he was that hand.'
    €™    Bertolt Brecht
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