Kafka
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Kafka

The Decisive Years

  1. 624 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Kafka

The Decisive Years

About this book

This is the acclaimed central volume of the definitive biography of Franz Kafka. Reiner Stach spent more than a decade working with over four thousand pages of journals, letters, and literary fragments, many never before available, to re-create the atmosphere in which Kafka lived and worked from 1910 to 1915, the most important and best-documented years of his life. This period, which would prove crucial to Kafka's writing and set the course for the rest of his life, saw him working with astonishing intensity on his most seminal writings--The Trial, The Metamorphosis, The Man Who Disappeared (Amerika), and The Judgment. These are also the years of Kafka's fascination with Zionism; of his tumultuous engagement to Felice Bauer; and of the outbreak of World War I.



Kafka: The Decisive Years is at once an extraordinary portrait of the writer and a startlingly original contribution to the art of literary biography.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Prologue: The Black Star
  7. 1. At Home with the Kafkas
  8. 2. Bachelors, Young and Old
  9. 3. Actors, Zionists, Wild People
  10. 4. Literature and Loneliness: Leipzig and Weimar
  11. 5. Last Stop Jungborn
  12. 6. A Young Lady from Berlin
  13. 7. The Ecstasy of Beginning: “The Judgment” and “The Stoker”
  14. 8. A Near Defenestration
  15. 9. The Girl, the Lady, and the Woman
  16. 10. Love and a Longing for Letters
  17. 11. Exultant Weeks, Little Intrigues
  18. 12. The Bauer Family
  19. 13. America and Back: The Man Who Disappeared
  20. 14. The Lives of Metaphors: “The Metamorphosis”
  21. 15. The Fear of Going Mad
  22. 16. Balkan War: The Massacre Next Door
  23. 171913.
  24. 18. The Man Who Disappeared: Perfection and Disintegration
  25. 19. Invention and Exaggeration
  26. 20. Sexual Trepidation and Surrender
  27. 21. The Working World: High Tech and the Ghosts of Bureaucracy
  28. 22. The Proposal
  29. 23. Literature, Nothing but Literature
  30. 24. Three Congresses in Vienna
  31. 25. Trieste, Venice, Verona, Riva
  32. 26. Grete Bloch: The Messenger Arrives
  33. 27. An All-Time Low
  34. 28. Kafka and Musil
  35. 29. Matrimonial Plans and Asceticism
  36. 30. Tribunal in Berlin
  37. 31. The Great War
  38. 32. Self-Inflicted Justice: The Trial and “In the Penal Colony”
  39. 33. The Return of the East
  40. 34. The Grand Disruption
  41. 35. No-Man’s-Land
  42. Acknowledgments
  43. Translator’s Note
  44. Key to Abbreviations
  45. Notes
  46. Bibliography
  47. Plates
  48. Photo Credits
  49. Index