Karl Kraus, infrequent and visionary (1/3): the genius of indignation

The work of the Austrian writer Karl Kraus (1874-1936) is still unjustly ignored today. A scourge of hypocrisy, a fierce critic of the damaging power of the so-called «information» press, viscerally at odds with public opinion through his early opposition to the First World War, he remains a victim of disdain and contempt, leaving in the shadows his visionary writings, which still resonate a century later like so many warnings. A three-part attempt to rehabilitate one of the greatest German-language writers of the first half of the 20th century (first his life, then his magazine and aphorisms, and finally his books).

A complex character who made a few errors of judgment, Karl Kraus can be seen as particularly excessive. This last characteristic is not necessarily to his disadvantage, da