Kafka : : The Early Years /

Kafka : : The Early Years / / Reiner Stach.

How did Kafka become Kafka? This eagerly anticipated third and final volume of Reiner Stach's definitive biography of the writer answers that question with more facts and insight than ever before, describing the complex personal, political, and cultural circumstances that shaped the young Franz...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
VerfasserIn:
Stach, Reiner,
MitwirkendeR:
Frisch, Shelley,
TeilnehmendeR:
Frisch, Shelley.
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (584 p.) :; 32 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Translator's Preface
  • Chapter One. Nothing Happening in Prague
  • Chapter Two. The Curtain Rises
  • Chapter Three. Giants: The Kafkas from Wosek
  • Chapter Four. Julie Löwy
  • Chapter Five. Losing Propositions
  • Chapter Six. Thoughts about Freud
  • Chapter Seven. Kafka, Franz: Model Student
  • Chapter Eight. A City Energized
  • Chapter Nine. Elli, Valli, Ottla
  • Chapter Ten. Latin, Bohemian, Mathematics, and Other Matters of the Heart
  • Chapter Eleven. Jewish Lessons
  • Chapter Twelve. Innocence and Impudence
  • Chapter Thirteen. The Path to Freedom
  • Chapter Fourteen. To Hell with German Studies
  • Chapter Fifteen. Friend Max
  • Chapter Sixteen. Enticements
  • Chapter Seventeen. Informed Circles: Utitz, Weltsch, Fanta, Bergmann
  • Chapter Eighteen. Autonomy and Recovery
  • Chapter Nineteen. The Interior Landscape: "Description of a Struggle"
  • Chapter Twenty. Doctor of Law Seeking Employment
  • Chapter Twenty- One. Off to the Prostitutes
  • Chapter Twenty- Two. Cafés, Geishas, Art, and Cinema
  • Chapter Twenty- Three. The Formidable Assistant Official
  • Chapter Twenty- Four. The Secret Writing School
  • Chapter Twenty- Five. Landing in Brescia
  • Chapter Twenty- Six. In the Heart of the West
  • Chapter Twenty- Seven. Ideas and Spirits: Buber, Steiner, Einstein
  • Chapter Twenty-Eight. Literature and Tourism
  • Acknowledgments
  • Key to Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Photo Credits
  • Index

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