Kafka: The Years of Insight
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (800 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 069116584X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 696 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Thorough and thoroughly entertaining biography Aaron There are three things a biography should do, and this one does them all:1. It should reflect the best scholarship on the subject. No one could question Reiner Stach's knowledge of Kafka's life, or his obsessive research into every element of the author's work, habits, relationships, and fears. You really can't get more thorough than this.2. It should be entertaining. Stach's language, courtesy of a masterful translation by Shelley Frisch, is playful but to the point. He strikes just the r. Review Wonderful effort which needs to be in a film or play to achieve emotional impact and multi language recognition in 213. Amazon Customer said very ambicious!. seems a very thorough review of Kafka's life!
However, his predicament only sharpened his perceptiveness, and the final period of his life became the years of insight.. 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. 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. Stach's riveting narrative, which reflects the latest findings about
With impressive insight into imaginative artistry, Stach illuminates the way Kafka responds to personal trauma and global firestorm, sometimes incorporating his negative circumstances into his fiction, but sometimes transcending those circumstances in metaphysical creations informed by a profoundly personal myth. Readers see up close how Kafka absorbs domestic negativity in a family dominated by a tyrannical father. --Bryce Christensen . From Booklist *Starred Review* Kafka summed up his life this way: “I have powerfully absorbed the negative element of the age.” In this final volume of his definitive biography, Stach unfolds the life process through which a mature Kafka absorbs that nightmarish negativity and distills