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dc.contributor.authorLinden, Ari
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-18T18:19:03Z
dc.date.available2018-06-18T18:19:03Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.citationLinden, Ari. Review: Jonathan Franzen. The Kraus Project (Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2013). Journal of Austrian Studies (48:1, 2015).en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/26527
dc.description.abstractRarely do the worlds of twentieth- century Austrian modernism and twenty-first-century American fiction so explicitly collide. Yet it is this unlikely marriage that we find in Jonathan Franzen’s translations of some of Karl Kraus’s seminal writings: Heine and the Consequences (1910), the afterword to Heine and the Consequences (1911), Nestroy and Posterity: On the Fiftieth Anniversary of his Death (1912), Between Two Strains of Life: Final Word (1917), and Kraus’s last poem, “Let No One Ask . . .” (1934). Paul Reitter’s commentaries provide the necessary historical context and critical insight into the various discourses and polemics to which Kraus was responding (or into which he inserted himself), and the contemporary Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann aids in both parsing some of the difficult syntax and allusions for which Kraus was known and providing details about the late nineteenth- century and early twentieth-century Austrian and German literary landscape. Collectively, this project represents a productive encounter between past and present, fiction and the academy; it may even have spawned a new literary genre.en_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Nebraska Pressen_US
dc.rightsCopyright © 2015 Austrian Studies Associationen_US
dc.titleReview: The Kraus Project by Jonathan Franzenen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
kusw.kuauthorLinden, Ari
kusw.kudepartmentGermanic Languages and Literaturesen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1353/oas.2015.0004en_US
kusw.oaversionScholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscripten_US
kusw.oapolicyThis item meets KU Open Access policy criteria.en_US
dc.rights.accessrightsopenAccessen_US


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