Journal of European Studies, March 1st, 1999
By Harry Zohn. (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture, Literary Criticism in Perspective.) Columbia: Camden House, 1997. Pp. xv + 161. [pounds]50.00.
The apparent political oscillations of Karl Kraus's career have seldom been appreciated by historians as much as his accompanying documentation of the excesses and delusions of social discourse in Habsburg Vienna on the brink of its collapse and in the bitter aftermath, the First Republic. His oeuvre is still ransacked as a source of wit by a journalistic profession which his caustic satire so consistently exposed. Yet as auth...
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