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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 Stach worked extensively on the definitive edition of Kafka's collected works before embarking on his three-volume biography of the writer. The other volumes are Kafka: The Decisive Years and Kafka: The Years of Insight (both Princeton). Shelley Frisch's translations of those volumes were awarded the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize and the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize. Her many other translations from the German include Karin Wieland's Dietrich & Riefenstahl , a finalist for the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award. Klappentext Advance praise for Kafka: The Early Years " Kafka: The Early Years completes a masterful trilogy. One feature puts it at light-years' distance of superiority to anything previously written about Kafka's early years: Stach had unique access to Max Brod's notebooks, part of a celebrated cache of documents bearing on his friendship with Kafka. Far more fully than any other Kafka biographer, Stach gives us what Hegel calls 'the concrete vitality of the full individual.' " --Stanley Corngold, author of Lambent Traces: Franz Kafka Advance praise for Kafka: The Early Years " Kafka: The Early Years is a remarkable conclusion to a momentous biography. It covers what is in many ways the most important and interesting period of Kafka's life, for these are the years during which he was shaped by the world around him and when his character emerged. This is an entertaining, informative account that has no equivalent among the many previous biographies of Kafka." --Mark M. Anderson, author of Kafka's Clothes 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...
