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Kafka : the Decisive Years by Stach, Reiner is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Kafka : the Decisive Years about?
Includes bibliographical references (p. [551]-562) and index, At home with the Kafkas -- Bachelors, young and old -- Actors, Zionists, wild people -- Literature and loneliness: Leipzig and Weimar -- Last stop Jungborn -- A young lady from Berlin -- The ecstasy of beginning: \"The judgment\" and \"The stoker\" -- A near defenestration -- The girl, the lady, and the woman -- Love and a longing for letters -- Exultant weeks, little intrigues -- The Bauer family -- American and back: The man who disappeared -- The lives of metaphors: \"The metamorphosis\" -- The fear of going mad -- Balkan War: the massacre next door -- 1913 -- The man who disappeared: perfection and disintegration -- Invention and exaggeration -- Sexual trepidation and surrender -- The working world: high tech and the ghosts of bureaucracy -- The proposal -- Literature, nothing but literature -- Three Congresses in Vienna -- Trieste, Venice, Verona, Riva -- Grete Bloch: the messenger arrives -- An all-time low -- Kafka and Musil -- Matrimonial plans and asceticism -- Tribunal in Berlin -- The great war -- Self-inflicted justice: The trial and \"In the penal colony\" -- The return of the East -- The grand disruption --
Who reads Kafka : the Decisive Years?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Stach, Reiner
- Publisher
- Orlando : Harcourt
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780151007523
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Memoir, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.58 / 5 (111 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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