Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths: Selected Aphorisms / Edition 1

by Karl Kraus, Harry Zohn

Overview

"An aphorism never coincides with the truth: it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths," wrote Kraus. The aphorism was "a sub-genre [Kraus] considered the height of linguistic integrity. . . . With the help of notes and introductions by Zohn, the subtlety and archness of Kraus' linguistic gifts shine through."--Peter Filkins, Bloomsbury Review

"Kraus is a superb aphorist."--D. J. Enright, New York Review of Books

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226452685
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	08/15/1990
Series:	Cinema and Modernity Ser.
Edition description:	1
Pages:	135
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Karl Kraus (1874-1936) was publisher of the independent Viennese journal Die Fackel.

Table of Contents

Karl Kraus: An Introduction
With my narrow horizon
Riddles out of solutions
In hollow heads
In this war we are dealing . . .
Not for women but against men
Lord, forgive them . . .
Selected Bibliography