Karl Kraus - Works in English Translation

Works in English Translation

  • The Last Days of Mankind: a Tragedy in Five Acts (1974), an abridgement tr. Alexander Gode and Sue Allen Wright
  • In These Great Times: A Karl Kraus Reader (1984), ed. Harry Zohn, contains translated excerpts from Die Fackel, including poems with the original German text alongside, and a drastically abridged translation of The Last Days of Mankind.
  • Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus' Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry (1990) by Thomas Szasz contains Szasz's translations of several of Kraus' articles and aphorisms on psychiatry and psychoanalysis.
  • Half Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths: selected aphorisms (1990) translated by Hary Zohn. Chicago ISBN 0-226-45268-9.
  • Dicta and Contradicta, tr. Jonathan McVity (2001), a collection of aphorisms.
  • The Last Days of Mankind (1999) a radio drama broadcast on BBC-3. Paul Scofield plays The Voice of God. Adapted and Directed by Giles Havergal. The 3 episodes were broadcast from 06/12/1999 to 13/12/1999.

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