Kafka: The Decisive Years

Stach, Reiner

ISBN 10: 0151007527 / ISBN 13: 9780151007523

Published by Harcourt Barce and Company, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A., 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Kafka: The Decisive Years
• Publisher: Harcourt Barce and Company, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0151007527
• ISBN 13: 9780151007523
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New
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Synopsis

This is the first of a three-volume, definitive biography of Kafka who, eighty years after his death in 1924, remains one of the most intriguing figures in the history of world literature. Now, after a decade's research, Stach recreates the atmosphere in which Kafka lived and worked from 1910 to 1915. These are the years of Kafka's fascination with early forms of Zionism, his on/off engagement, the outbreak of World War I, and - above all - the composition of his seminal works "The Metamorphosis", "Amerika", The Judgement, and "The Trial".

About the Author

Reiner Stach is a widely respected writer, editor, and scholar. He devoted more than a decade to researching and writing this biography. He lives in Hamburg.