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Kafka: The Decisive Years
Reiner Stach Translated from the German by Shelley Frisch
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Synopsis |
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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 his seminal works-The Metamorphosis, Amerika, The Judgment, and The Trial.
Kafka:The Decisive Years-at once an extraordinary portrait of the writer and an original contribution to the art of literary biography.
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Praise |
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"This is a masterpiece of inspired biographical writing, an intricate but empathetic portrayal of an elusive author."
E.Williams,Choice Magazine,6/1/2006
"In his examination of Kafka during the years he wrote most of his major texts, this excellent biographer is a man facing a man facing a mystery."
Forward Magazine,12/30/2005
"I can’t say enough about the liveliness and richness of Stach’s book."
Michael Dirda,Washington Post Book World,11/27/2005
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Biography |
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REINER STACH is a widely respected writer, editor, and scholar. After working extensively on the definitive edition of Kafka's collected works, he devoted more than a decade to researching and writing this biography. He lives in Hamburg.
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General Subjects |
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Biography & Autobiography- Literary
Biography & Autobiography- General
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Academic Disciplines & Course Studies |
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English Language & Literature- Comparative Literature
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English Language & Literature- World Literature
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Interdisciplinary Studies- Jewish Studies
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Rights Details |
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First Serial/Second Serial/Reprint/UK: Harcourt
Audio/Performance/Translation: S. Fischer Verlag
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Rights Information |
Harcourt Books
An imprint ofHarcourt Trade Publishers
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Harcourt Education Company
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