In their writings, Kafka, Roth, and Kraus rejected the ideology of rootedness that was rapidly encroaching upon early 20th-century European consciousness.

Ari Linden
Ari Linden is an associate professor of German studies at the University of Kansas. His first book, Karl Kraus and the Discourse of Modernity, was published by Northwestern University Press in 2020. His research interests include critical theory, German Jewish thought and culture, and early 20th-century Austrian and German literature.