第 1/1 張圖片
Kraft by Lüscher, Jonas
by Lüscher, Jonas | HC | VeryGood
狀況：
“May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend ”... 閱讀更多內容關於物品狀況
運費：
所在地：Aurora, Illinois, 美國
送達日期：
估計於 5月3日, 五至 5月6日, 一之間送達 運送地點 43230
退貨：
保障：
請參閱物品說明或聯絡賣家以取得詳細資料。閱覽全部詳情查看保障詳情
（不符合「eBay 買家保障方案」資格）
安心購物
物品細節
- 物品狀況
- 很好
- 賣家備註
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 0 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780374182144
- Book Title
- Kraft: a Novel
- Item Length
- 8.4in
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Satire, Literary
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 12 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
關於產品
Product Information
Jonas Lüscher, the author of Barbarian Spring --"a most humorous and convincing satire of the ridiculous excesses of those responsible for the financial crisis" ( The New York Times Book Review )--returns to the topic of neoliberal arrogance in his Swiss Book Prize-winning, hilarious, and wicked novel about a man facing the ruins of his life, and his world. Richard Kraft, a German professor of rhetoric and aging Reaganite and Knight Rider fan, is unhappily married and badly in debt. He sees no way out of his rut until he is invited to participate in a competition to be held in California and sponsored by a Silicon Valley tycoon and "techno-optimist." The contest is to answer a literal "million-dollar question": each competitor must compose an eighteen-minute lecture on why our world is still, despite all evidence, the best of all possible worlds, and how we might improve it even further through technology. Entering into a surreal American landscape, Kraft soon finds what's left of his life falling to pieces as he struggles to justify as "best" a planet in the hands of such blithe neoliberal cupidity as he encounters on his odyssey to California. Still, with the prize money in his pocket, perhaps Kraft could finally buy his way to a new life . . . But what contortions--physical and philosophical--will he have to subject himself to in order to claim it? Jonas Lüscher's second novel, Kraft , is a hilarious and wicked tale about a man facing the ruins of his life, and his world.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374182140
ISBN-13
9780374182144
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23038277926
Product Key Features
Book Title
Kraft: a Novel
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Satire, Literary
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.4in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
12 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pt2712.U87k7313 2020
Reviews
"A sly and witty satire on philosophical bad faith the age of neoliberalism." -Shaun Whiteside, New Books in German " Jonas Lüscher's Kraft is a pitch-perfect comedy of manners about the search for meaning in Silicon Valley, a brilliant, bemused expedition to a land we have come to know all too well." -Adrian Daub, Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature at Stanford University "A German professor meets Silicon Valley. This tragicomic encounter discharges a bunch of neoliberal myths, startup fantasies, techno-optimistic visions, and religions of the market. Jonas Lüscher's Kraft is a thrilling campus novel, a sparkling comedy on human flaws, and a brilliant essay about the burlesque spectacle of ideas in recent capitalism." -Joseph W. Vogl, professor of Modern German Literature, Cultural and Media Studies at Humboldt University Berlin and Princeton University "The author of the much-praised Barbarian Spring . . . presents a clever, science-skeptical, contemporary novel, unparalleled in the new vanguard of Germany literature." -Gerrit Bartels, Deutschlandradio Kultur "The book of the hour, the book for our time." - Deutschlandfunk "A highly intelligent, deeply enjoyable read that offers hilarious twists and turns." -Holger Ehling, Buchkultur, "An arch, fascinating satire of world-weary European skepticism and irrational American hopefulness . . . [written with] gloomy humor and dense but never arid ruminations. This is a wonderfully strange novel, and one not to be missed." -- Publishers Weekly (Starred) "A sly and witty satire on philosophical bad faith the age of neoliberalism." -Shaun Whiteside, New Books in German " Jonas Lüscher's Kraft is a pitch-perfect comedy of manners about the search for meaning in Silicon Valley, a brilliant, bemused expedition to a land we have come to know all too well." -Adrian Daub, author of What Tech Calls Thinking "A German professor meets Silicon Valley. This tragicomic encounter discharges a bunch of neoliberal myths, startup fantasies, techno-optimistic visions, and religions of the market. Jonas Lüscher's Kraft is a thrilling campus novel, a sparkling comedy on human flaws, and a brilliant essay about the burlesque spectacle of ideas in recent capitalism." -Joseph W. Vogl, professor of Modern German Literature, Cultural and Media Studies at Humboldt University Berlin and Princeton University "The author of the much-praised Barbarian Spring . . . presents a clever, science-skeptical, contemporary novel, unparalleled in the new vanguard of Germany literature." -Gerrit Bartels, Deutschlandradio Kultur "The book of the hour, the book for our time." - Deutschlandfunk "A highly intelligent, deeply enjoyable read that offers hilarious twists and turns." -Holger Ehling, Buchkultur, "An exceedingly cerebral comic novel . . . These long winter nights offer a chance to burrow into literary challenges--this winter especially. And though Kraft may sound far afield from your usual reading choices, much of it takes place in America and revolves around the promise of Reaganomics." --Ron Charles, The Washington Post "A finely handled, comic dramatization of the microcompromises, stifled shame and bad-faith gymnastics of sham writers who tell the Culture whatever it wants to hear . . . Lüscher is a perceptive commentator on Silicon Valley's heady and hubristic ideological climate, with its smug boasts of "disruption" and death-denying (or rather "posthuman transtheotechnist") longings . . . Lüscher sniffs out the fraudulence in the very roots of his characters' political stances." --Rob Doyle, The New York Times Book Review "A pitch-perfect social satire . . . an allegory for our techno-crazed, consumption-addicted, soul-crushing times . . . An alternative, perhaps, to the simplistic formula underlying so many best-sellers today, which it pretends to apply." -- Kai Maristed, The Arts Fuse "An arch, fascinating satire of world-weary European skepticism and irrational American hopefulness . . . [written with] gloomy humor and dense but never arid ruminations. This is a wonderfully strange novel, and one not to be missed." -- Publishers Weekly (Starred) "A sly and witty satire on philosophical bad faith the age of neoliberalism." -Shaun Whiteside, New Books in German " Jonas Lüscher's Kraft is a pitch-perfect comedy of manners about the search for meaning in Silicon Valley, a brilliant, bemused expedition to a land we have come to know all too well." -Adrian Daub, author of What Tech Calls Thinking "A German professor meets Silicon Valley. This tragicomic encounter discharges a bunch of neoliberal myths, startup fantasies, techno-optimistic visions, and religions of the market. Jonas Lüscher's Kraft is a thrilling campus novel, a sparkling comedy on human flaws, and a brilliant essay about the burlesque spectacle of ideas in recent capitalism." -Joseph W. Vogl, professor of Modern German Literature, Cultural and Media Studies at Humboldt University Berlin and Princeton University "The author of the much-praised Barbarian Spring . . . presents a clever, science-skeptical, contemporary novel, unparalleled in the new vanguard of Germany literature." -Gerrit Bartels, Deutschlandradio Kultur "The book of the hour, the book for our time." - Deutschlandfunk "A highly intelligent, deeply enjoyable read that offers hilarious twists and turns." -Holger Ehling, Buchkultur, "An exceedingly cerebral comic novel . . . These long winter nights offer a chance to burrow into literary challenges--this winter especially. And though Kraft may sound far afield from your usual reading choices, much of it takes place in America and revolves around the promise of Reaganomics. In other words, the perspective is foreign, but the setting familiar . . . Lüscher's style, a hybrid of intellectual posturing and absurd slapstick, is sharply translated by Tess Lewis, who captures Kraft's pomposity and the indefatigable march of German syntax . . . For all its intellectual scaffolding, Kraft is essentially the story of a man realizing what a jerk he's been. Whether that's a comedy or a tragedy is the abiding suspense of this plot." --Ron Charles, The Washington Post "A finely handled, comic dramatization of the microcompromises, stifled shame and bad-faith gymnastics of sham writers who tell the Culture whatever it wants to hear . . . Lüscher is a perceptive commentator on Silicon Valley's heady and hubristic ideological climate, with its smug boasts of "disruption" and death-denying (or rather "posthuman transtheotechnist") longings . . . Lüscher sniffs out the fraudulence in the very roots of his characters' political stances." --Rob Doyle, The New York Times Book Review "A pitch-perfect social satire . . . an allegory for our techno-crazed, consumption-addicted, soul-crushing times . . . An alternative, perhaps, to the simplistic formula underlying so many best-sellers today, which it pretends to apply." -- Kai Maristed, The Arts Fuse "An arch, fascinating satire of world-weary European skepticism and irrational American hopefulness . . . [written with] gloomy humor and dense but never arid ruminations. This is a wonderfully strange novel, and one not to be missed." -- Publishers Weekly (Starred) "A sly and witty satire on philosophical bad faith the age of neoliberalism." -Shaun Whiteside, New Books in German " Jonas Lüscher's Kraft is a pitch-perfect comedy of manners about the search for meaning in Silicon Valley, a brilliant, bemused expedition to a land we have come to know all too well." -Adrian Daub, author of What Tech Calls Thinking "A German professor meets Silicon Valley. This tragicomic encounter discharges a bunch of neoliberal myths, startup fantasies, techno-optimistic visions, and religions of the market. Jonas Lüscher's Kraft is a thrilling campus novel, a sparkling comedy on human flaws, and a brilliant essay about the burlesque spectacle of ideas in recent capitalism." -Joseph W. Vogl, professor of Modern German Literature, Cultural and Media Studies at Humboldt University Berlin and Princeton University "The author of the much-praised Barbarian Spring . . . presents a clever, science-skeptical, contemporary novel, unparalleled in the new vanguard of Germany literature." -Gerrit Bartels, Deutschlandradio Kultur "The book of the hour, the book for our time." - Deutschlandfunk "A highly intelligent, deeply enjoyable read that offers hilarious twists and turns." -Holger Ehling, Buchkultur
Lccn
2020-023952
Dewey Decimal
833/.92
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
賣家提供的物品說明
運費與處理費
物品所在地：
Aurora, Illinois, 美國
運送地點
不丹, 中國, 中國台灣, 中國澳門, 中國香港, 中非共和國, 丹麥, 乍德, 也門, 亞塞拜疆共和國, 亞美尼亞, 以色列, 伊拉克, 伯利茲, 佛得角群島, 保加利亞, 克羅地亞共和國, 全球, 冰島, 列支敦士登, 利比利亞, 剛果共和國, 剛果民主共和國, 加拿大, 加納, 加蓬共和國, 匈牙利, 南非, 南韓, 博茨瓦納, 卡塔爾, 印尼, 印度, 危地馬拉, 厄瓜多爾, 厄立特里亞, 吉布提, 吉爾吉斯, 哈薩克, 哥倫比亞, 哥斯達黎加, 喀麥隆, 圖瓦盧, 土庫斯安德凱科斯群島, 土庫曼, 土耳其, 圭亞那, 坦桑尼亞, 埃及, 埃塞俄比亞, 基里巴斯, 塔吉克, 塞內加爾, 塞拉利昂, 塞浦路斯, 塞爾維亞, 塞舌爾, 墨西哥, 多哥, 多明尼加, 多明尼加共和國, 奧地利, 孟加拉, 安哥拉, 安圭拉島, 安提瓜和巴布達, 安道爾, 寮國, 尼加拉瓜, 尼日利亞, 尼日爾, 尼泊爾, 巴哈馬, 巴基斯坦, 巴布亞新畿內亞, 巴拉圭, 巴拿馬, 巴林, 巴西, 布基納法索, 布隆迪, 希臘, 帛琉, 幾內亞, 幾內亞比索, 庫克群島, 德國, 意大利, 愛沙尼亞, 愛爾蘭, 所羅門群島, 拉脫維亞, 挪威, 捷克共和國, 摩洛哥, 摩爾多瓦, 摩納哥, 斐濟, 斯威士蘭, 斯洛伐克, 斯洛文尼亞, 斯瓦爾巴群島和揚馬延島, 斯里蘭卡, 新加坡, 日本, 智利, 柬埔寨, 格恩西島, 格陵蘭, 格雷納達, 格魯吉亞, 梵蒂岡, 比利時, 毛里求斯, 汶萊, 沙特阿拉伯, 法國, 波多黎各, 波斯尼亞和黑塞哥維那, 波蘭, 泰國, 津巴布韋, 洪都拉斯, 海地, 湯加, 澤西島, 澳洲, 烏干達, 烏拉圭, 烏茲別克, 牙買加, 特里尼達和多巴哥, 玻利維亞, 瑙魯, 瑞典, 瑞士, 瓦利斯和富圖納群島, 瓦努阿圖, 甘比亞, 白俄羅斯, 百慕達群島, 盧旺達, 盧森堡, 直布羅陀, 福克蘭群島（馬爾維納斯）, 科威特, 科特迪瓦（象牙海岸）, 秘魯, 突尼斯, 立陶宛, 米克羅尼西亞, 約旦, 納米比亞, 紐埃, 紐西蘭, 索馬里, 羅馬尼亞, 美屬薩摩亞, 美屬處女島, 聖基茨-尼維斯, 聖文森和格瑞那丁, 聖皮耶與密克隆群島, 聖盧西亞, 聖赫倫那島, 聖馬力諾, 肯亞, 芬蘭, 英國, 英屬維爾京群島, 茅利塔尼亞, 荷屬安地列斯群島, 荷蘭, 莫桑比克, 菲律賓, 萊索托, 葛摩, 葡萄牙, 蒙古, 蒙特色拉特島, 薩爾瓦多, 蘇里南, 西撒哈拉, 西班牙, 西薩摩亞, 貝寧, 贊比亞, 赤道幾內亞, 越南, 開曼群島, 關島, 阿富汗, 阿拉伯聯合酋長國, 阿曼, 阿根廷, 阿爾及利亞, 阿爾巴尼亞, 阿魯巴, 馬來西亞, 馬其頓, 馬拉維, 馬爾代夫, 馬約特島, 馬紹爾群島, 馬耳他, 馬達加斯加, 馬里, 黎巴嫩, 黑山
排除：
俄羅斯聯邦, 利比亞, 委內瑞拉, 巴貝多, 新喀里多尼亞, 法屬圭亞那, 法屬玻里尼西亞, 烏克蘭, 瓜德羅普島, 留尼汪島, 馬提尼克島
| 運費與處理費 | 運送地點 | 運送方式 | 運送*查看送達備註 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 免運費 | 美國 | Economy Shipping | 估計於 5月3日, 五至 5月6日, 一之間送達 運送地點 43230 |
| US $15.99（大約 HK$ 125.15） | 美國 | Expedited Shipping | 估計會在 5月2日, 四或之前送達 運送地點 43230 |
| 稅項 |
|---|
| 賣家將對以下州別的買家收取銷售稅： |
物品編號 144496849307 的銷售稅
物品編號 144496849307 的銷售稅
賣家會對寄往以下各州的物品收取銷售稅：
| 州／省 | 銷售稅稅率 |
|---|---|
| Missouri (MO) | 8.238% |
退貨政策
| 收到物品後聯絡賣家的期限： | 退款方式 |
|---|---|
| 30 日 | 退款 |
賣家負責支付退貨運費。
賣家信用評價 （5,164,558）
4***r (67)- 買家留下的信用評價。
過去 1 個月
購買已獲認證
Fast service! Smooth transaction and great item.
o***0 (774)- 買家留下的信用評價。
過去 1 個月
購買已獲認證
Very nice thank you!