For the great language critic Karl Kraus, style could prove that someone is a murderer. In the catastrophe of phrases, he saw the catastrophe of a world war reflected - just as he would likely have read an entire economic crisis from the statements of our analysts and financial brokers. This volume gathers the most important texts from the magazine 'Die Fackel', edited by Karl Kraus. It includes contributions from Kindler's Literary Lexicon, along with data on life and work, exclusively written by the editorial team of the literary journal TEXT + KRITIK.