Der Prager Schriftsteller und Versicherungsbeamte Franz Kafka hat in beispiellos eigensinniger und zugleich perfekter Weise die Sprache zum Medium der Selbstentfaltung gemacht. Das ist unstrittig. Wie aber konnte ein sozial so unscheinbarer Mensch eine kulturelle Schockwelle auslsen, deren Echos bis heute weltweit vernehmbar sind? Auch ein Dreivierteljahrhundert nach seinem Tod hat noch kein Biograph sich dieser Frage gestellt.Zu erklren, wie aus einem Bewusstsein, dem alles zu denken gibt, ein Bewusstsein werden konnte, das allen zu denken gab: Das ist die Aufgabe.
Der Prager Schriftsteller und Versicherungsbeamte Franz Kafka hat in beispiellos eigensinniger und zugleich perfekter Weise die Sprache zum Medium der...
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...
How did Kafka become Kafka? This eagerly anticipated third and final volume of Reiner Stach's definitive biography of the writer answers that quest...
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,...
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 ...
