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Urbana and Chicago. 2001. University of Illinois Press. Reprinted Edition.

Urbana and Chicago. 2001. University of Illinois Press. Reprinted Edition. Very Good in Hardcover. No Dustjacket. 9780252026485. Translated from the German by Jonathan McVity. 191 pages. hardcover. Cover photo from the Historical Museum of the City of Vienna, courtesy of the City of Vienna. Cover design by Erin Kirk New. keywords: Literature Austria Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER-From the decadent turn of the century to the Third Reich, the acerbic satirist Karl Kraus was one of the most famous and feared intellectuals in Europe. Uniquely combining humor with profundity and venom with compassion, DICTA AND CONTRADICTA is a bonanza of scandalous wit from Vienna's answer to Oscar Wilde. Through the polemical and satirical magazine Die Fackel (The torch), which he founded in 1899, Kraus launched wicked but unrelentingly witty attacks on literary and media corruption, sexual repression, militarism, and the social hypocrisy of fin-de-siècle Vienna. His barbed aphorisms were an essential part of his running commentary on Viennese culture. For DICTA AND CONTRADICTA, originally published in 1909 and revised in 1923, Kraus selected nearly 1, 000 of the scathing aphorisms that had appeared in Die Fackel. In this new translation, Jonathan McVity masterfully renders Kraus's multilayered meanings, preserving the clever wordplay of the German in readable colloquial English. He also provides an essay on Kraus's life and milieu and annotations that clarify many of Kraus's literary and socio-historical allusions. inventory #20622.