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Kafka: The Decisive Years

di Reiner Stach

Serie: Kafka (2)

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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.… (altro)
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This is the second of a three-volume biography of Kafka, and it appears to be definitive. It is well researched and well written. There was more than I really wanted to know about Kafka, almost a daily recounting (of the middle portion) of his life. So this may appeal more to writers. You do learn about his process of writing and its effect on the other elements of his life. ( )
  KENNERLYDAN | Jul 11, 2021 |
Excellent--as good as the 'first' (i.e., last?) volume was, this is substantially better. Stach inserts less quasi-philosophical meditations, and his writing about the books and stories is outstanding. I still suspect that he takes Kafka too much as his word, but then, so does everyone; there's a curious reluctance to admit that Kafka's diaries are just as performative as his letters, and that all the self-flagellation need not be an accurate representation of his mental state.

Particularly important is Stach's tracing of Kafka's relationship with Felice Bauer. ( )
  stillatim | Oct 23, 2020 |
I hope to review this later, probably after I read the next volume. Suffice it to say, this is indispensable reading for any serious Kafka fan. I read a review (New York Observer, Dec. 2005) complaining about the level of detail Stach uses to describe what the critic saw as Kafka's boring life. That is an absurd point on which to attack the book. Even the casual Kafka reader knows he wasn't some swashbuckling world traveler. The inner life was his focus, and Stach manages to contextualize everything going on in Kafka's life in order to present this life to the reader. It is a work of astonishing scholarship. I cannot wait to get started on the next volume. ( )
2 vota S.D. | Oct 18, 2014 |
Diese Biografie hebt sich deutlich von bisher bekannten Kafka-Biografien ab. Auf drei Bände ist sie angelegt. Dieser Band macht den Leser mit den Jahren 1910-1915 in Kafkas Lebensumfeld bekannt. Arbeit, 1. Weltkrieg, Junggesellen-Dasein, Felice Bauer, Reisen und die Begeisterung für technische Entwicklungen, etc. Und nicht zuletzt die in dieser Zeit entstandenen Erzählungen wie Das Urteil, Der Heizer, Der Verschollene, ... Ein tolles Buch, für das man sich viel Zeit nehmen sollte und immer wieder mal ein Kapitel aufschlagen und lesen möchte. Ausgestattet mit vielen Abbildungen. ( )
3 vota norbertliest | Aug 29, 2008 |
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One could credit Stach with a bold anti-interpretative stance if he weren't so aware of having missed the figure of Kafka among all the ruins of his life. Here is a definitive biographer who at least has the odd grace to acknowledge his own predicament. "A profusion of data can obscure our view, have a mind-numbing effect and stifle new ideas," he writes. "Consider that Walter Benjamin's extraordinary sketches about Kafka were written without any knowledge of the particulars of Kafka's life." Sometimes it's better to love a writer than to know him.
aggiunto da danielx | modificaNew York Times, Marco Roth (Jan 1, 2006)
 
Mr. Stach’s is a consummately Kafkaesque biography. With every piece of the vast mosaic at hand—the thousands of pages of diaries, letters and fiction, the tottering heaps of ancillary research—Mr. Stach holds it all up to the light piece by piece, turning it over and over and then putting it away, at last, with a puzzled frown. Indeed, he seems to question the validity of the whole biographical enterprise: “The best we can say is, It may have, could have, must have been this way.” Well, yes, but only a bore—albeit a good bore (a “hermeneutically dutiful” bore, as Mr. Stach puts it)—would bother to say so.
 
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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.

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