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Über drei Jahrzehnte hat der Kafka-Biograph Reiner Stach Daten rund um das Leben von Franz Kafka gesammelt und ausgewertet: Der Ertrag ist eine umfassende Chronik, »Kafka von Tag zu Tag«, die Kafkas privates Umfeld - Familie, Freunde, Geliebte - ebenso einbezieht wie seine Lektüre, die Entstehungsgeschichte seiner Werke, seine berufliche Laufbahn, seine Reisen und die für ihn bedeutsamsten kulturellen und politischen Ereignisse. Außerdem bietet Reiner Stach knappe Zusammenfassungen sämtlicher Briefe und Tagebucheinträge, in denen Kafkas Reaktionen auf die Ereignisse lebendig...

Reiner Stachs preisgekrönte Biographie über Franz Kafka liefert ein erzählerisch dichtes und farbiges Panorama der Lebenszeit des Prager Schriftstellers und zugleich die einfühlsame Studie eines außergewöhnlichen Menschen und Künstlers. Schon jetzt genießt die dreibändige, in insgesamt achtzehnjähriger Arbeit entstandene Biographie, die von »Die frühen Jahre« über »Die Jahre der Erkenntnis« bis zum abschließenden Band »Die Jahre der Entscheidungen« das Leben Franz Kafkas nachzeichnet, den Ruf eines internationalen Standardwerks, das die Möglichkeiten der literarischen...

This 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...

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 life and works, draws readers in with nearly cinematic precision, zooming in for extreme close-ups of Kafka's personal life, then pulling back for panoramic shots of a wider world blighted by World War I, disease, and inflation.

In these years, Kafka was spared military service at the front,...

How did Kafka become Kafka? This eagerly anticipated third and final volume of Reiner Stach's definitive biography of the writer answers that question with more facts and insight than ever before, describing the complex personal, political, and cultural circumstances that shaped the young Franz Kafka (1883-1924). It tells the story of the years from his birth in Prague to the beginning of his professional and literary career in 1910, taking the reader up to just before the breakthrough that resulted in his first masterpieces, including "The Metamorphosis." Brimming with vivid and often...

In the course of compiling his highly acclaimed three-volume biography of Kafka, while foraying to libraries and archives from Prague to Israel, Reiner Stach made one astounding discovery after another: unexpected photographs, inconsistencies in handwritten texts, excerpts from letters, and testimonies from Kafka's contemporaries that shed surprising light on his personality and his writing. Is that Kafka? presents the crystal granules of the real Kafka: he couldn't lie, but he tried to cheat on his high-school exams; bitten by the fitness fad, he avidly followed the regime of a...

How did Kafka become Kafka? This eagerly anticipated third and final volume of Reiner Stach's definitive biography of the writer answers that question with more facts and insight than ever before, describing the complex personal, political, and cultural circumstances that shaped the young Franz Kafka (1883-1924). It tells the story of the years from his birth in Prague to the beginning of his professional and literary career in 1910, taking the reader up to just before the breakthrough that resulted in his first masterpieces, including "The Metamorphosis." Brimming with vivid and often...