Selected Short Writings: Karl Kraus, Hermann Broch, Elias Canetti and Robert Walser
The literature of the Wiener Moderne exhibits biting social satire and other related aspects, first emanating from Karl Kraus (1874-1936), a prolific writer, difficult to classify, who reminds people of Jonathan Swift. Novelists and essayists Hermann Broch (1886-1951) and Elias Canetti (1905-94), who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981, were likewise marginalized, to a large extent as Jews. Robert Walser (1878-1956) is Swiss, and to a large extent like the other three authors in this...
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The scope of the material collected in this book ranges from class conditions under the liberated forces of capitalism, through the phantasmagoria of bourgeois sexuality, to the bio-politics of a state that sought to regulate even the morality of its citizens. Three of the authors represented are of Jewish origin, deeply informed by experiences and degrees of marginality: the satirist and playwright Karl Kraus (1874-1936), and the epic novelists and essayists Hermann Broch (1886-1951) and Elias Canetti (1905-94). Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878-1956), a contemporary of the three writers, cultivated a "small," courageous literature that overcame the stable relations between repression and revolt that constitutes the literature of the Weiner Moderne.
The cross of honor1Tourist trips to hell4The last days of mankind (act v, scene 53-54)9Self-admiration19Aphorisms24The anarchist35Zerline's tale95Studienrat Zacahrias's four speeches120The morning walk147The secret166Confucius the matchmaker175The survivor189The silent house and the empty rooftops219The donkey's concupiscence222Jakob von Gunten225
