Reiner Stach, Author, Shelley Frisch, Translator , trans. from the German by Shelley Frisch. Harcourt $35 (581p) ISBN 978-0-15-100752-3
We know Kafka better than almost any other literary figure. His tormented psyche has been on view for decades, not only from his great stories and novels but also from countless letters and diary entries, his own as well as those of lovers, and his...
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Reiner Stach, trans. from the German by Shelley Frisch. Princeton Univ., $35 (736p) ISBN 978-0-691-14751-2
This well-researched new biography details the last nine years of Franz Kafka’s life and explores the personal, social, and political events that shaped his writing. In 1915 (the year “The Metamorphosis” was published), the 32-year-old Kafka was...
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Reiner Stach, trans. from the German by Shelley Frisch. Princeton Univ., $35 (648p) ISBN 978-0-691-15198-4
German biographer Stach completes his massive three-volume life of the literary giant Franz Kafka (1883–1924) with a long-awaited account of the prodigy’s life before 1910, enriched by Frisch’s able translation. Kafka’s eerie short stories and...
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