Reiner Stach
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"One of The Guardian Best Books of 2013, chosen by Colm Tóibín" Reiner Stach worked extensively on the definitive edition of Kafka's collected works before embarking on this three-volume biography. The third volume, Kafka: The Years of Insight (Princeton), covering Kafka's final years, is also available. The first volume, covering Kafka's childhood and youth, is forthcoming.
This is the acclaimed central volume of the definitive biography of Franz...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"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 Franz Kafka (1883-1924). It tells the story of the years from his birth in Prague to the beginning of his professional and literary career in 1910, taking the reader...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the 2014 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize" "Finalist for the 2013 National Jewish Book Award in History, Jewish Book Council" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014" "One of The Guardian Best Books of 2013, chosen by Colm Tóibín" "Longlisted for the 2014 PEN Translation Award, Pen American Center" Reiner Stach worked extensively on the definitive edition of Kafka's collected works before embarking on this three-volume...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A splendid new translation of an extraordinary work of modern literature-featuring facing-page commentary by Kafka's acclaimed biographer. In 1917 and 1918, Franz Kafka wrote a set of more than 100 aphorisms, known as the Zürau aphorisms, after the Bohemian village in which he composed them. Among the most mysterious of Kafka's writings, they explore philosophical questions about truth, good and evil, and the spiritual and sensory world. This is...
Author
Publisher
A New Directions Paperbook
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Unearthed by the master Kafka biographer and scholar Reiner Stach and translated by the peerless Michael Hofmann, this collection comes as a prize and a joy. Some stories are several pages long; some run about a page; a handful are only a few lines long. Lost to English-language readers until now, all are marvels: even the most fragmentary texts are revelations. "Wonderful," Hofmann remarked, as he was translating. "It's full of the love of narration,...