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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Stach, Reiner, author.     Subjects     Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 -- Childhood and youth.     Authors, Austrian -- 20th century -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Stach, Reiner, author.       by title:      Kafka, the early yea...         MARC Display

Kafka, the early years [electronic resource] / Reiner Stach ; translated by Shelley Frisch. by Stach, Reiner, author. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2016. Subjects Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 -- Childhood and youth.   Authors, Austrian -- 20th century -- Biography. Electronic Resource http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=50&titleID=2964059 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8585b099-c807-4a24-af4f-861a6868ef48&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/1980-1/{8585B099-C807-4A24-AF4F-861A6868EF48}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9781400884476 (electronic bk.) 1400884470 (electronic bk.) 9780691151984 0691151989 Description:  1 online resource (xiv, 564 pages, 32 unnumbered pages) : illustrations. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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 up to just before the breakthrough that resulted in his first masterpieces, including "The Metamorphosis." Brimming with vivid and often startling details, Stach's narrative invites readers deep inside this neglected period of Kafka's life. The book's richly atmospheric portrait of his German Jewish merchant family and his education, psychological development, and sexual maturation draw on numerous sources, some still unpublished, including family letters, schoolmates' memoirs, and early diaries of his close friend Max Brod. The biography also provides a colorful panorama of Kafka's wider world, especially the convoluted politics and culture of Prague. Before World War I, Kafka lived in a society at the threshold of modernity but torn by conflict, and Stach provides poignant details of how the adolescent Kafka witnessed violent outbreaks of anti-Semitism and nationalism. The reader also learns how he developed a passionate interest in new technologies, particularly movies and airplanes, and why another interest--his predilection for the back-to-nature movement--stemmed from his "nervous" surroundings rather than personal eccentricity. The crowning touch to a masterly biography, this is an unmatched account of how a boy who grew up in an old Central European monarchy became a writer who helped create modern literature."--   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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