Eileen Battersby of The Irish Times published a glowing review of Patrick Healy’s translation of The Last Days of Mankind. On the centenary of the battle of the Somme, the piece describes Kraus’ magnum opus as ‘a deliriously frenetic kaleidoscopic pageant of an anti-war play’, and goes on to praise Healy’s work in no uncertain…
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Having completed the mammoth task of translating the full text of Karl Kraus’ The Last Days Of Mankind, Patrick Healy now embarks on the next challenge: to read out the entire play (yes indeed, all 600 pages – Preface, Prologue, Acts I-V and Epilogue) in front of a small live audience during several 1 or…
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