Kafka: The Decisive YearsThis 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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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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