Kafka, the decisive years by Stach, Reiner instant download

Kafka, the decisive years by Stach, Reiner instant download

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 -- No-man's land