Torch Song (Karl Kraus)

Karl Kraus: Apocalyptic Satirist, Volume 2: The Postwar Crisis and the Rise of the Swastika by Edward Timms.  New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.  639 pp.  $50.

published in Bookforum, 13-2 (June-September 2006): 20-21.

Of the great writers, artists, and composers of fin-de-siècle and World War I Vienna, many of whom—Freud and Wittgenstein, Arnold Schoenberg and Adolf Loos– he knew personally, Karl Kraus (1874-1936) is probably […]