Kafka, the early years /

"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 Fran...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stach, Reiner (Author)
Other Authors: Frisch, Shelley Laura (Translator)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
German
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press 2016.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv7h0tx4
Table of Contents:
  • Translator's Preface
  • Nothing Happening in Prague
  • The Curtain Rises
  • Giants : The Kafkas from Wosek
  • Julie Löwy
  • Losing Propositions
  • Thoughts about Freud
  • Kafka, Franz: Model Student
  • A City Energized
  • Elli, Valli, Ottla
  • Latin, Bohemian, Mathematics, and Other Matters of the Heart
  • Jewish Lessons
  • Innocence and Impudence
  • The Path to Freedom
  • To Hell with German Studies
  • Friend Max
  • Enticements
  • Informed Circles : Utitz, Weltsch, Fanta, Bergmann
  • Autonomy and Recovery
  • The Interior Landscape : "Description of a Struggle"
  • Doctor of Law Seeking Employment
  • Off to the Prostitutes
  • Cafés, Geishas, Art, and Cinema
  • The Formidable Assistant Official
  • The Secret Writing School
  • Landing in Brescia
  • In the Heart of the West
  • Ideas and Spirits : Buber, Steiner, Einstein
  • Literature and Tourism.