Kafka : : The Decisive Years /

Kafka : : The Decisive Years / / Reiner Stach.

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 191...

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VerfasserIn:
Stach, Reiner,
TeilnehmendeR:
Frisch, Shelley.
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©2013
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (624 p.) :; 37 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • PROLOGUE: The Black Star
  • 1 At Home with the Kafkas
  • 2 Bachelors, Young and Old
  • 3 Actors, Zionists, Wild People
  • 4 Literature and Loneliness: Leipzig and Weimar
  • 5 Last Stop Jungborn
  • 6 A Young Lady from Berlin
  • 7 The Ecstasy of Beginning: "The Judgment" and "The Stoker"
  • 8 A Near Defenestration
  • 9 The Girl, the Lady, and the Woman
  • 10 Love and a Longing for Letters
  • 11 Exultant Weeks, Little Intrigues
  • 12 The Bauer Family
  • 13 America and Back: The Man Who Disappeared
  • 14 The Lives of Metaphors: "The Metamorphosis"
  • 15 The Fear of Going Mad
  • 16 Balkan War: The Massacre Next Door
  • 17 1913
  • 18 The Man Who Disappeared: Perfection and Disintegration
  • 19 Invention and Exaggeration
  • 20 Sexual Trepidation and Surrender
  • 21 The Working World: High Tech and the Ghosts of Bureaucracy
  • 22 The Proposal
  • 23 Literature, Nothing but Literature
  • 24 Three Congresses in Vienna
  • 25 Trieste, Venice, Verona, Riva
  • 26 Grete Bloch: The Messenger Arrives
  • 27 An All-Time Low
  • 28 Kafka and Musil
  • 29 Matrimonial Plans and Asceticism
  • 30 Tribunal in Berlin
  • 31 The Great War
  • 32 Self-Inflicted Justice: The Trial and "In the Penal Colony"
  • 33 The Return of the East
  • 34 The Grand Disruption
  • 35 No-Man's-Land
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • TRANSLATOR'S NOTE
  • KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • PHOTO CREDITS
  • INDEX
  • Photos

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