Masks of the Prophet : : The Theatrical World of Karl Kraus / / Karl GRIMSTAD.
'When the name "Hitler" is mentioned, nothing occurs to me' – so said Karl Kraus. For this leading Viennese Jewish critic and intellectual the touchstone of art was ethics. How could he be speechless in the face of a threat to all that ethics means? To answer this question, the a...
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