Kafka : : The Years of Insight / / Reiner Stach.

Telling the story of Kafka's final years as never before—the third volume in the acclaimed definitive biographyThis volume of Reiner Stach's acclaimed and definitive biography of Franz Kafka tells the story of the final years of the writer's life, from 1916 to 1924—a period during whi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (696 p.) :; 72 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Prologue: The Ants of Prague
  • Chapter one. Stepping Outside the Self
  • Chapter two: No Literary Prize for Kafka
  • Chapter three “Civilian Kavka”: The Work of War
  • Chapter four. The Marvel of Marienbad
  • Chapter five. What Do I Have in Common with Jews?
  • Chapter six. Kafka Encounters His Readers
  • Chapter seven. The Alchemist
  • Chapter eight. Ottla and Felice
  • Chapter nine. The Country Doctor Ventures Out
  • Chapter ten. Mycobacterium tuberculosis
  • Chapter eleven. Zürau’s Ark
  • Chapter twelve. Meditations
  • Chapter thirteen. Spanish Influenza, Czech Revolt, Jewish Angst
  • Chapter fourteen. The Pariah Girl
  • Chapter fifteen. The Unposted Letter to Hermann Kafka
  • Chapter sixteen. Merano, Second Class
  • Chapter seventeen. Milena
  • Chapter eighteen. Living Fires
  • Chapter nineteen. The Big Nevertheless
  • Chapter twenty. Escape to the Mountains
  • Chapter twenty-one. Fever and Snow: Tatranské Matliary
  • Chapter twenty-two. The Internal and the External Clock
  • Chapter twenty-three. The Personal Myth: The Castle
  • Chapter twenty-four. Retiree and Hunger Artist
  • Chapter twenty-five. The Palestinian
  • Chapter twenty-six. Dora
  • Chapter twenty-seven. The Edge of Berlin
  • Chapter twenty-eight. Last Sorrow
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • Translator’s Note
  • Key to Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Photo Credits
  • Index