Die letzten Tage der Menschheit

The Last Days of Mankind

Author

Karl Kraus

Language

German

Year

1922

Country

Austria

Genre

Drama / Theatre / Plays

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The Last Days of Mankind is a grotesque drama by Karl Kraus. The play is a perceptive and bitter reckoning with the horrors of World War I. One third of the play is drawn from documentary sources. Written between 1915 and 1922, the drama consists of more than 200 scenes. Kraus depicts the depths of war in all its grotesque and equally unbearable absurdity — from the cynical delusion of politicians to the disinformation of the press to indifference and dullness of the population.