Kafka: The Decisive Years

Stach, Reiner

ISBN 10: 0691147418 / ISBN 13: 9780691147413

Published by Princeton University Press, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Kafka: The Decisive Years
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691147418
• ISBN 13: 9780691147413
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine

About this title

Synopsis

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 1910 to 1915, the most important and best-documented years of his life. This period, which would prove crucial to Kafka's writing and set the course for the rest of his life, saw him working with astonishing intensity on his most seminal writings--The Trial, The Metamorphosis, The Man Who Disappeared (Amerika), and The Judgment. These are also the years of Kafka's fascination with Zionism; of his tumultuous engagement to Felice Bauer; and of the outbreak of World War I. Kafka: The Decisive Years is at once an extraordinary portrait of the writer and a startlingly original contribution to the art of literary biography.

About the Author

Reiner Stach worked extensively on the definitive edition of Kafka's collected works before embarking on this three-volume biography. The third volume, Kafka: The Years of Insight (Princeton), covering Kafka's final years, is also available. The first volume, covering Kafka's childhood and youth, is forthcoming.