The third Walpurgis Night : the complete text / Karl Kraus ; translated from the German by Fred Bridgham and Edward Timms ; foreword by Marjorie Perloff.
Kraus, Karl, 1874-1936, author.; Bridgham, Frederick George Thomas, 1943- translator.; Timms, Edward, translator.; Perloff, Marjorie, writer of foreword.
2020
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Title The third Walpurgis Night : the complete text / Karl Kraus ; translated from the German by Fred Bridgham and Edward Timms ; foreword by Marjorie Perloff.
Author Kraus, Karl, 1874-1936, author.
Uniform Title Dritte Walpurgisnacht. English
ISBN 9780300252804 (electronic book)
0300252803 (electronic book)
9780300236002
Published New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2020]
Copyright ©2020
Language English
Language Note Translated from German.
Description 1 online resource (xxv, 283 pages).
Call Number DD253 .K66213 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification 943.086
Summary "Now available in English for the first time, Austrian satirist and polemicist Karl Kraus's Third Walpurgis Night was written in immediate response to the Nazi seizure of power in 1933 but withheld from publication for fear of reprisals against Jews trapped in Germany. Acclaimed when finally published by Kösel Verlag in 1952, it is a devastatingly prescient exposure, giving special attention to the regime's corruption of language as masterminded by Joseph Goebbels. Bertolt Brecht wrote to Kraus that, in his indictment of Nazism, "You have disclosed the atrocities of intonation and created an ethics of language." This masterful translation, by the prizewinning translators of Kraus's The Last Days of Mankind, aims for clarity where Kraus had good reason to be cautious and obscure"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Added Author Bridgham, Frederick George Thomas, 1943- translator.
Timms, Edward, translator.
Perloff, Marjorie, writer of foreword.
Series Margellos world republic of letters book.
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Foreword / by Marjorie Perloff
Translators' preface
Introduction
1. Stunned by the seizure of power
2. The satirist's dilemma
3. And what about culture?
4. Goebbels, manipulative modernism, and bucolic Jew-baiting
5. Political leadership and artistic transfiguration
6. Heidegger and the verbal accomplices of violence
7. Gottfried Benn and the sacrifice of intellect
8. Papen's two-faced politics and the military tradition
9. National German Jews
10. Turning headlines into lies
11. Murder with mendacity
12. Purveyors of culture and the PEN Congress
13. Verbal imperialism : "Germany, awaken!"
14. Self-refuting rhetoric and the price of butter
15. Rubbing salt in the wound
16. Poets and barbarians
17. Translations from the Hebrew?
18. Soundbite-hooks and foreign policy
19. "When Jewish blood..."
20. Austrian independence and the innocent aggressor
21. Protective custody
22. Sexual hatred, "unforced" conversation, and an act of defiance
23. Dollfuss and the Social Democrats
24. Casting out the Devil through Beelzebub
25. Between two fascisms : language brings everything to light
26. Headlong into servitude : when madmen lead the blind
27. Out of the abyss : Prussian eagles and parched tongues
28. Where lawlessness makes law its instrument
29. Prophets of doom and the triumph of aryan teutonism
Notes
Glossary and Index

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