Kafka: The Early Years 9781400884476
How did Kafka become Kafka? This eagerly anticipated third and final volume of Reiner Stach's definitive biography
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English Pages 584 [612] Year 2016
Table of contents :
Contents
Translator’s Preface
Chapter One. Nothing Happening in Prague
Chapter Two. The Curtain Rises
Chapter Three. Giants: The Kafkas from Wosek
Chapter Four. Julie Löwy
Chapter Five. Losing Propositions
Chapter Six. Thoughts about Freud
Chapter Seven. Kafka, Franz: Model Student
Chapter Eight. A City Energized
Chapter Nine. Elli, Valli, Ottla
Chapter Ten. Latin, Bohemian, Mathematics, and Other Matters of the Heart
Chapter Eleven. Jewish Lessons
Chapter Twelve. Innocence and Impudence
Chapter Thirteen. The Path to Freedom
Chapter Fourteen. To Hell with German Studies
Chapter Fifteen. Friend Max
Chapter Sixteen. Enticements
Chapter Seventeen. Informed Circles: Utitz, Weltsch, Fanta, Bergmann
Chapter Eighteen. Autonomy and Recovery
Chapter Nineteen. The Interior Landscape: “Description of a Struggle”
Chapter Twenty. Doctor of Law Seeking Employment
Chapter Twenty- One. Off to the Prostitutes
Chapter Twenty- Two. Cafés, Geishas, Art, and Cinema
Chapter Twenty- Three. The Formidable Assistant Official
Chapter Twenty- Four. The Secret Writing School
Chapter Twenty- Five. Landing in Brescia
Chapter Twenty- Six. In the Heart of the West
Chapter Twenty- Seven. Ideas and Spirits: Buber, Steiner, Einstein
Chapter Twenty-Eight. Literature and Tourism
Acknowledgments
Key to Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Photo Credits
Index
