Kafka The Early Years

Zusatztext "Of paramount importance in bringing this colossal biography to the English-speaking world is the work of translator Shelley Frisch. . . . Frisch's sensitive and intelligent work demonstrates that great translation is not only invisible but indivisible: great translation is great literature." ---Time's Flow Stemmed Informationen zum Autor Reiner StachTranslated by Shelley Frisch Klappentext How did Kafka become Kafka? This eagerly anticipated third and final volume of Reiner Stach's definitive biography answers that question with more facts, detail, 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 startling details, Stach's narrative invites readers deep inside this neglected period of Kafka's life. The book's richly atmospheric portrait of his German Jewish merchant family and his education, psychological development, and sexual maturation draw on numerous sources, some still unpublished, including family letters, schoolmates' memoirs, and early diaries of his close friend Max Brod. Zusammenfassung 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 fro

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Praise for the previous volumes: "This is one of the great literary biographies, to be set up there with, or perhaps placed on an even higher shelf than, Richard Ellmanns James Joyce, George Painters Marcel Proust, and Leon Edels Henry James. . . . [A]n eerily immediate portrait of one of literatures most enduring and enigmatic masters."--John Banville, New York Review of Books

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• Authors: Reiner Stach, Reiner/ Frisch Stach, Stach Reiner
• Assisted by: Shelley Frisch (Translation)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 01.11.2016
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies
• EAN: 9780691151984
• ISBN: 978-0-691-15198-4
• Pages: 584
• Subjects: Suggestion, Symptom, Franz Kafka, Literature, Technology, Psychoanalysis, German Literature, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, Everyday Life, Lebensreform, Heinrich Mann, Poetry, Max Brod, Feeling, Writing, Philosophy, Narrative, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, Curriculum, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, morality, laughter, Theory, dora diamant, Matura, german, social status, adolescence, Franz Werfel, consciousness, Writer, Classroom, Criticism, Tax, Modernity, Career, Customer, Middle Class, Judaism, Explanation, year, Lecture, Rhetoric, Jews, Insurance, Physician, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Thought, Clothing, Newspaper, Prose, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Biography: writers, Zionism, World War I, Self-image, Household, Suffering, Extended family, politician, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, hatred, Publication, anecdote, eroticism, Germans, Admiration, Doctorate, sibling, brothel, Seriousness, His Family, Indication (medicine), Czechs, Letter to His Father, sentimental education, Literary estate, Description of a Struggle