TheKrausProject

作者 Jonathan Franzen著
出版社 FOURTHESTATELTD
出版时间 2011年8月
ISBN 9780007518241
定价 120.30

内容简介

AgreatAmericanwriter’sconfrontationwithagreatEuropeancritic–apersonalandintellectualawakening.Ahundredyearsago,theViennesesatiristKarlKrauswasamongthemostpenetratingandpropheticwritersinEurope:arelentlesscriticofthepopularmedia’smanipulationofreality,thedehumanizingmachineryoftechnologyandconsumerism,andthejingoisticrhetoricofafadingempire.ButeventhoughhisfollowersincludedFranzKafkaandWalterBenjamin,heremainedsomethingofalonelyprophet,andfewpeopletodayarefamiliarwithhiswork.Thankfully,JonathanFranzenisoneofthem.In‘TheKrausProject’,FranzennotonlypresentsandannotateshisdefinitivenewtranslationsofKraus,withsupplementarynotesfromtheKrausscholarPaulReitterandtheAustrianwriterDanielKehlmann.InFranzenKraushasfoundhismatch:anovelistunafraidtovoiceunpopularopinionsstrongly,acriticcapableofuntanglingKraus’softendensearguments.Painstakinglywrought,strikinglyoriginalinform,‘TheKrausProject’isafeastofthought,passionandliterature.

作者简介

JonathanFranzenwasbornin1959.HehaslivedinBoston,Spain,NewYork,ColoradoSpringsandPhiladelphia.Hisnovelsare‘TheTwenty-SeventhCity’,‘StrongMotion’,‘TheCorrections’and‘Freedom’.Heisalsotheauthoroftwocollectionsofnon-fiction,‘HowToBeAlone’and‘FartherAway’and‘TheDiscomfortZone’,amemoir.Hisfictionandnon-fictionappearfrequentlyinthe‘NewYorker’and‘Harper’s’,andhewasnamedoneofthebestAmericannovelistsunderfortyby‘Granta’andthe‘NewYorker’.HelivesinNewYorkCity.

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