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The Last Days of Mankind: The Complete Text

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Kraus’s iconic WWI drama, a satirical indictment of the glory of war, now in English in its entirety for the first time

"[A] superb translation."—Bill Marx, Arts Fuse

One hundred years after Austrian satirist Karl Kraus began writing his dramatic masterpiece, The Last Days of Mankind remains as powerfully relevant as the day it was published. Kraus’s play enacts the tragic trajectory of the First World War, when mankind raced toward self—destruction by methods of modern warfare while extol...