The Third Walpurgis Night: The Complete Text (The Margellos World Republic Of Letters),Used

The First Complete English Translation Of A Farseeing Polemic, Written In 1933 By The Preeminent Germanlanguage Satirist, Unmasking The Nazi Seizure Of Power'[A] Dropdead Analysis Of The Rhetorical Barbarities Of The Hitler Cult.'Bill Marx, Arts Fuseaustrian Satirist And Polemicist Karl Krauss Third Walpurgis Night Was Written In Immediate Response To The Nazi Seizure Of Power In 1933 But Was Withheld From Publication For Fear Of Reprisals Against Jews Trapped In Germany. Acclaimed When Finally Published By Ksel Verlag In 1952, It Is A Devastatingly Prescient Exposure, Giving Special Attention To The Regimes 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 Krauss The Last Days Of Mankind, Aims For Clarity Where Kraus Had Good Reason To Be Cautious And Obscure.The Austrian Jewish Author Karl Kraus (18741936) Was The Foremost Germanlanguage Satirist Of The Twentieth Century. As Editor Of The Journal Die Fackel (The Torch) He Singlehandedly After 1912 Conducted A Sustained Critique Of Propaganda And The Press, Expressed Through Polemical Essays, Satirical Plays, Witty Aphorisms, And Resonant Poems.