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Kafka : The Decisive Years /
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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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2021]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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