The Last Days of Mankind: The Complete Text Kraus Karl

Krauss iconic WWI drama, a satirical indictment of the glory of war, now in English in its entirety for the first time [A] superb translation.--Bill Marx, Arts Fuse

One hundred years after Austrian satirist Karl Kraus began writing his dramatic masterpiece, The Last Days of Mankind remains as powerfully relevant as the day it was published. Krauss play enacts the tragic trajectory of the First World War, when mankind raced toward self-destruction by methods of modern warfare while extolling the glory and ignoring the horror of an allegedly defensive war. This volume is the first to present a complete English translation of Krauss towering work, filling a major gap in the availability of Viennese literature from the era of the War to End All Wars.

Bertolt Brecht hailed The Last Days as the masterpiece of Viennese modernism. In the

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