Leo Lensing: Karl Kraus at war

“Die letzten Tage der Menschheit” by Deborah Sengl, 2013 Photograph: © Deborah Sengl/Photo by Mischa Nawrata
“Die letzten Tage der Menschheit” by Deborah Sengl,
2013 Photograph: © Deborah Sengl/Photo by Mischa
Nawrata

 

Leo Lensing’s commentary on Austria’s exploitation of The Last Days of Mankind, Karl Kraus’s great anti-war drama, to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the beginning of the First World War, is featured this week on the homepage of the The Times Literary Supplement.