TY - BOOK AU - Stach,Reiner AU - Frisch,Shelley TI - Kafka: The Decisive Years SN - 9780691233567 U1 - 833.912 22 PY - 2021///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary KW - bisacsh KW - Aichinger, Ilse KW - Altmütter, Georg KW - Aristotle KW - Ball, Hugo KW - Birnbaum, Nathan KW - Boyle, Nicholas KW - Browning, Robert KW - Camus, Albert KW - Chan, Charlie KW - Czech National Theater KW - Dehmel, Richard KW - Diederichs, Eugen KW - Ehrenstein, Carl KW - Elberfeld horses KW - Eulenberg, Herbert KW - Ficker, Ludwig von KW - Fuchs, Rudolf KW - German Romanticism KW - Great War KW - Grillparzer, Franz KW - Habsburg Empire KW - Hasidism KW - Hawthorne, Nathaniel KW - Holocaust KW - Horace KW - Insel-Bücherei KW - Janowitz, Hans KW - Juncker, Axel KW - Just, Rudolf KW - Kant, Immanuel KW - Kornfeld, Paul KW - Laube, Heinrich KW - Lombroso, Cesare KW - Mann, Thomas KW - Marcovaldi, Martha KW - Meyrink, Gustav KW - Modern Times (film) KW - Nicholas I KW - Oppenheimer, Max KW - Parlographs KW - Redl, Colonel KW - Romanticism KW - Sauer, Hedda KW - Schreiner, Josef KW - Strauss, Botho KW - Tacitus KW - Tucholsky, Kurt KW - asceticism, of FK KW - biography KW - family life, of FK KW - pogroms N1 - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Introduction --; PROLOGUE: The Black Star --; 1 At Home with the Kafkas --; 2 Bachelors, Young and Old --; 3 Actors, Zionists, Wild People --; 4 Literature and Loneliness: Leipzig and Weimar --; 5 Last Stop Jungborn --; 6 A Young Lady from Berlin --; 7 The Ecstasy of Beginning: "The Judgment" and "The Stoker" --; 8 A Near Defenestration --; 9 The Girl, the Lady, and the Woman --; 10 Love and a Longing for Letters --; 11 Exultant Weeks, Little Intrigues --; 12 The Bauer Family --; 13 America and Back: The Man Who Disappeared --; 14 The Lives of Metaphors: "The Metamorphosis" --; 15 The Fear of Going Mad --; 16 Balkan War: The Massacre Next Door --; 17 1913 --; 18 The Man Who Disappeared: Perfection and Disintegration --; 19 Invention and Exaggeration --; 20 Sexual Trepidation and Surrender --; 21 The Working World: High Tech and the Ghosts of Bureaucracy --; 22 The Proposal --; 23 Literature, Nothing but Literature --; 24 Three Congresses in Vienna --; 25 Trieste, Venice, Verona, Riva --; 26 Grete Bloch: The Messenger Arrives --; 27 An All-Time Low --; 28 Kafka and Musil --; 29 Matrimonial Plans and Asceticism --; 30 Tribunal in Berlin --; 31 The Great War --; 32 Self-Inflicted Justice: The Trial and "In the Penal Colony" --; 33 The Return of the East --; 34 The Grand Disruption --; 35 No-Man's-Land --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; TRANSLATOR'S NOTE --; KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS --; NOTES --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; PHOTO CREDITS --; INDEX --; Photos; restricted access N2 - 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 Man Who Disappeared (Amerika), and The Judgment. These are also the years of Kafka's fascination with Zionism; of his tumultuous engagement to Felice Bauer; and of the outbreak of World War I. Kafka: The Decisive Years is at once an extraordinary portrait of the writer and a startlingly original contribution to the art of literary biography UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691233567?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691233567 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780691233567.jpg ER -