The Kraus Project

“Engrossing, highly original . . . Franzen finds in...Kraus a model of how to provoke readers while at the same time getting them to do some work.” ― The New York Times Book Review A hundred years ago, the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus was among the most penetrating and farsighted writers in Europe. In his self-published magazine, DieFackel , Kraus brilliantly attacked the popular media's manipulation of reality and the dehumanizing machinery of technology and consumer capitalism. But even though