Kafka The Decisive Years

Name: Kafka The Decisive Years
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ISBN: 9780151007523

ISBN-10: 0151007527

ISBN-13: 9780151007523

Edition: 2005

Authors: Reiner Stach, Shelley Frisch

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This is the first of a three-volume, definitive biography of Franz Kafka. Eighty years after his death in 1924, Kafka remains one of the most intriguing figures in the history of world literature. Now, after more than a decade of research, working with over four thousand pages of journal entries, letters, and literary fragments, Reiner Stach re-creates 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 despite his longing to be assimilated into the minority German culture in Prague; of his off-again, on-again engagement to Felice Bauer; of the outbreak of World War I; and above all of the composition of…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 11/7/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 592
Size: 0.16" wide x 0.24" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.2
Language: English

She teaches German language & literature at Rutgers University.



Introduction


Prologue: The Black Star


At Home with the Kafkas


Bachelors, Young and Old


Actors, Zionists, Wild People


Literature and Loneliness: Leipzig and Weimar


Last Stop Jungborn


A Young Lady from Berlin


The Ecstasy of Beginning: ""The Judgment"" and ""The Stoker""


A Near Defenestration


The Girl, the Lady, and the Woman


Love and a Longing for Letters


Exultant Weeks, Little Intrigues


The Bauer Family


America and Back: The Man Who Disappeare