{"product_id":"kafka-the-decisive-years-paperback","title":"Kafka: The Decisive Years - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eReiner Stach\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eShelley Frisch\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the acclaimed central volume of the definitive biography of Franz Kafka. Reiner Stach spent more than a decade working with over four thousand pages of journals, letters, and literary fragments, many never before available, to re-create the atmosphere in which Kafka lived and worked from 1910 to 1915, the most important and best-documented years of his life. This period, which would prove crucial to Kafka's writing and set the course for the rest of his life, saw him working with astonishing intensity on his most seminal writings--\u003ci\u003eThe Trial\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Metamorphosis\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Disappeared\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eAmerika\u003c\/i\u003e), and \u003ci\u003eThe Judgment\u003c\/i\u003e. These are also the years of Kafka's fascination with Zionism; of his tumultuous engagement to Felice Bauer; and of the outbreak of World War I. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKafka: The Decisive Years\u003c\/i\u003e is at once an extraordinary portrait of the writer and a startlingly original contribution to the art of literary biography.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReiner Stach\u003c\/b\u003e worked extensively on the definitive edition of Kafka's collected works before embarking on this three-volume biography. The third volume, \u003ci\u003eKafka: The Years of Insight\u003c\/i\u003e (Princeton), covering Kafka's final years, is also available. The first volume, covering Kafka's childhood and youth, is forthcoming.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 624\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.25 x 9.22 x 6.23 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 09, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42694075285567,"sku":"9780691147413","price":33.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/73cef07b019624afe894744c2c7b1e1c.webp?v=1765000953","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/kafka-the-decisive-years-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}