Dicta and contradicta
By: Karl Kraus ; translated from the German by Jonathan McVity.
Contributors: McVity, Jonathan.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
Description: "From the decadent turn of the century to the Third Reich, the acerbic satirist Karl Kraus was one of the most famous and feared intellectuals in Europe. Uniquely combining humor with profundity and venom with compassion, Dicta and Contradicta is a bonanza of scandalous wit from Vienna's answer to Oscar Wilde.".

"Through the polemical and satirical magazine Die Fackel (the torch), which he founded in 1899, Kraus launched wicked but unrelentingly witty attacks on literary and media corruption, sexual repression, militarism, and the social hypocrisy of fin-de-siecle Vienna. His barbed aphorisms were an essential part of his running commentary on Viennese culture."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Womankind, fantasy; title: Morality, Christianity; title: Human and nearly human; title: The press, stupidity, politics; title: The artist; title: Writing and reading; title: Countries and people; title: Moods, words; title: Dicta and contradicta; title: The twist : dicta and contradicta in context / by Jonathan McVity.