The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus - Hardcover

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Jonathan Franzen is the author of four novels (Freedom, The Corrections, Strong Motion, and The Twenty-Seventh City), two collections of essays (Farther Away and How to Be Alone), and a personal history (The Discomfort Zone), and the translator of Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening, all published by FSG. He lives in New York City and Santa Cruz, California. Karl Kraus (1874 - 1936) was an Austrian satirist, playwright, poet, aphorist, and journalist. From 1899 until his death, he published the literary and political review Die Fackel.

Jonathan Franzen is the author of novels such as The Corrections (2001), Freedom (2010), and Crossroads (2021), and works of nonfiction, including Farther Away (2012) and The End of the End of the Earth (2018), all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He lives in Santa Cruz, California.

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Praise for author Jonathan Franzen:

"A literary genius for our time." —Jonathan Jones, The Guardian

"Franzen is arguably America's greatest living novelist . . . He writes continually about writing and reading, luxuriating in language and sticking up for literature for literature's sake." —Paul Clements, The Daily Telegraph

"Never less than superbly intelligent."

—Richard Davenport-Hines, The Spectator

"Little contends with Franzen's prose. He writes behemoth sentences, graceful, technical mini-wonders that read as easily as his most colloquial quips . . . Franzen never feels more lucid than when assessing—or more often championing—texts that have taken him by the lapels." —Sean Hoen, Paste

"Not only is Jonathan Franzen the most important novelist of our time, but . . . he is also an incredibly wise and clear-headed thinker who can humbly analyze and explain some of the most complex situations through the most poignant, insightful, and precise observations." —Randy Rosenthal, The Coffin Factory

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Praise for author Jonathan Franzen:

"A literary genius for our time." --Jonathan Jones, The Guardian

"Franzen is arguably America's greatest living novelist . . . He writes continually about writing and reading, luxuriating in language and sticking up for literature for literature's sake." --Paul Clements, The Daily Telegraph

"Never less than superbly intelligent."

--Richard Davenport-Hines, The Spectator

"Little contends with Franzen's prose. He writes behemoth sentences, graceful, technical mini-wonders that read as easily as his most colloquial quips . . . Franzen never feels more lucid than when assessing--or more often championing--texts that have taken him by the lapels." --Sean Hoen, Paste

"Not only is Jonathan Franzen the most important novelist of our time, but . . . he is also an incredibly wise and clear-headed thinker who can humbly analyze and explain some of the most complex situations through the most poignant, insightful, and precise observations." --Randy Rosenthal, The Coffin Factory