The Last Days of Mankind: The Complete Text PDF Karl Kraus

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The underlying irony is that these officers, who reappear in the opening scene of each Act, are themselves modeled on Schönpflug cartoon characters, reshaped in accordance with the “restaurant/battlefront” paradox formulated by Kraus in December 1912. Their fatuous exchanges now hint at something far more sinister. The Schönpflug drawing they admire might well be that venomous cartoon portraying King Peter of Serbia and Tsar Nicholas of Russia as blood-stained criminals. It is left to our imagination whether the officers are chuckling about that prototype of visual hate speech or some harmless humoresque.

Trivial local responses to cataclysmic events generate a pervasive black humour. As the scene shifts to the Café Pucher, the prime minister, while preparing to issue a communiqué, asks the waiter for a humorous magazine—not Die Muskete but Die Bombe! The tragedy of mankind is indeed being played out by “operetta f

• Book Name: The Last Days of Mankind: The Complete Text pdf
• Author Name Karl Kraus
• Product Type pdf,epub Digital Book
• Added Year 2015

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