Kafka, the years of insight
This volume of Reiner Stach's acclaimed and definitive biography of Franz Kafka tells the story of the final years of the writer's life, from 1916 to 1924--a period during which the world Kafka had known came to an end. Stach's riveting narrative, which reflects the latest findings about Kafka's lif...
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Princeton ; Oxford :
Princeton University Press,
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: the ants of Prague
- Stepping outside the self
- No literary prize for Kafka
- "Civilian kavka": the work of war
- The marvel of Marienbad
- What do I have in common with Jews?
- Kafka encounters his readers
- The alchemist
- Ottla and Felice
- The country doctor ventures out
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Zürau's ark
- Meditations
- Spanish influenza, Czech revolt, Jewish angst
- The pariah girl
- The unposted letter to Hermann Kafka
- Merano, second class
- Milena
- Living fires
- The big nevertheless
- Escape to the mountains
- Fever and snow: Tatranské Matliary
- The internal and the external clock
- The personal myth: the castle
- Retiree and Hunger artist
- The Palestinian
- Dora
- The edge of Berlin
- Last sorrow
- Epilogue.
