Kafka The Years of Insight 1st edition by Reiner Stach ISBN 069116584X 978-0691165844

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ISBN 10: 069116584X
ISBN 13: 978-0691165844
Author: Reiner Stach

Telling the story of Kafka’s final years as never before―the third volume in the acclaimed definitive biography

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, yet his work as a civil servant brought him into chilling proximity with its grim realities. He was witness to unspeakable misery, lost the financial security he had been counting on to lead the life of a writer, and remained captive for years in his hometown of Prague. The outbreak of tuberculosis and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire constituted a double shock for Kafka, and made him agonizingly aware of his increasing rootlessness. He began to pose broader existential questions, and his writing grew terser and more reflective, from the parable-like Country Doctor stories and A Hunger Artist to The Castle.

A door seemed to open in the form of a passionate relationship with the Czech journalist Milena Jesenská. But the romance was unfulfilled and Kafka, an incurably ill German Jew with a Czech passport, continued to suffer. However, his predicament only sharpened his perceptiveness, and the final period of his life became the years of insight.

Kafka The Years of Insight 1st Table of contents:

1. Chapter One. Stepping Outside the Self
2. Chapter Two. No Literary Prize for Kafka
3. Chapter Three. “Civilian Kavka”: The Work of War
4. Chapter Four. The Marvel of Marienbad
5. Chapter Five. What Do I Have in Common with Jews?
6. Chapter Six. Kafka Encounters His Readers
7. Chapter Seven. The Alchemist
8. Chapter Eight. Ottla and Felice
9. Chapter Nine. The Country Doctor Ventures Out
10. Chapter Ten. Mycobacterium tuberculosis
11. Chapter Eleven. Zürau’s Ark
12. Chapter Twelve. Meditations
13. Chapter Thirteen. Spanish Influenza, Czech Revolt, Jewish Angst
14. Chapter Fourteen. The Pariah Girl
15. Chapter Fifteen. The Unposted Letter to Hermann Kafka
16. Chapter Sixteen. Merano, Second Class
17. Chapter Seventeen. Milena
18. Chapter Eighteen. Living Fires
19. Chapter Nineteen. The Big Nevertheless
20. Chapter Twenty. Escape to the Mountains
21. Chapter Twenty-one. Fever and Snow: Tatranské Matliary
22. Chapter Twenty-two. The Internal and the External Clock
23. Chapter Twenty-three. The Personal Myth: The Castle
24. Chapter Twenty-four. Retiree and Hunger Artist
25. Chapter Twenty-five. The Palestinian
26. Chapter Twenty-six. Dora
27. Chapter Twenty-seven. The Edge of Berlin
28. Chapter Twenty-eight. Last Sorrow

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