Karl Kraus Books


The Last Days of Mankind
- 672 pages
- 24 hours of reading
Conceived 'for a theatre on Mars', Kraus' apocalyptic tragedy 'The Last Days of Mankind' is the longest play ever written. A bitingly satirical commentary on the horrors of WWI, it employs a collage of modernist techniques to evoke a despairing vision of the Great War from the perspective of Kraus' hometown, Vienna.