The Last Days of Mankind explained

The Last Days of Mankind (German: Die letzten Tage der Menschheit) is a satirical play by Karl Kraus. It is considered one of the most important of Kraus's works.

One third of the play is drawn from documentary sources and is highly realistic, except the final scenes which are of expressionist genre.^[1]

Further reading

• "Die letzten Tage der Menschheit" im Bunker, Spiegel Online, April 22, 1999
• Book: an abridgement translated by Alexander Gode and Sue Allen Wright . The last days of mankind; a tragedy in five acts . F. Ungar Pub. Co . New York . 1974 . 9780804424844 . registration .

External links

• Hanns Eisler
• Die letzten Tage der Menschheit, in German at Project Gutenberg
• Website with iconography to all scenes www.letztetage.com

Notes and References

1. Knight, Charles A. (2004) Literature of Satire p.255