Kafka: The Decisive Years, Volume 2This 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. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Black Star | 16 |
At Home with the Kafkas | 21 |
Bachelors Young and Old | 42 |
Actors Zionists Wild People | 54 |
Leipzig and Weimar | 71 |
Last Stop Jungborn | 86 |
A Young Lady from Berlin | 94 |
The Proposal | 297 |
Literature Nothing but Literature | 324 |
Three Congresses in Vienna | 350 |
Trieste Venice Verona Riva | 368 |
The Messenger Arrives | 379 |
An AllTime Low | 390 |
Kafka and Musil | 401 |
Matrimonial Plans and Asceticism | 413 |
The Judgment and The Stoker | 108 |
A Near Defenestration | 119 |
The Girl the Lady and the Woman | 134 |
Love and a Longing for Letters | 145 |
Exultant Weeks Little Intrigues | 159 |
The Bauer Family | 169 |
The Man Who Disappeared | 175 |
The Metamorphosis | 192 |
The Fear of Going Mad | 206 |
The Massacre Next Door | 226 |
Perfection and Disintegration | 242 |
Invention and Exaggeration | 253 |
Sexual Trepidation and Surrender | 266 |
High Tech and the Ghosts | 281 |
Tribunal in Berlin | 433 |
The Great War | 444 |
The Trial and In the Penal Colony | 464 |
The Return of the East | 484 |
The Grand Disruption | 493 |
NoMansLand | 508 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 517 |
TRANSLATORS NOTE | 519 |
KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS | 521 |
NOTES | 523 |
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PHOTO CREDITS | 563 |
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