"Die Fackel" ("The Torch") was published in Vienna from April 1899 to February 1936 and was almost entirely self-authored by the satirist Karl Kraus who used language and press criticism to attack society and culture. Karl Kraus was born on 28 April 1874 in Jic (ín (Bohemia) and died on 12 June 1936 in Vienna. The work of Karl Kraus, in its many forms and variations, of which the journal is the core, can be regarded as one of the most important, although almost untranslatable contributions to world literature. It is a source for the history of the time, for its language and its transgressions. Karl Kraus in his own typical and idiosyncratic manner dealt with the themes of journalism and war, of sex and crime, of politics and corruption, of literature and lying. The influential journal "Die Fackel" comprises in literally thousands of texts an enormous thematic variety in a great number of different text types, such as essays, notes, commentaries, aphorisms, poems, drama and other literary expressions.
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Always read in the dark, so your brain doesn't have to compute all those alphabetic characters.
