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Chargement... Kafka: The Early Years (2013)par Reiner Stach
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Kafka: The Early Years may be most compelling at precisely such junctures, when its wealth of information about the young author fails to concretize in definitive assessments of his personality or cultural milieu, and instead offers a glimpse of something inchoate and fleeting that does not need to be ascribed paradigmatic import. One might object that these flashes of contingency are symptomatic of the degree to which the different strands of Stach’s project never entirely come together, but Kafka’s fans are likely to be the last people who would imagine that they could Appartient à la sérieKafka (1) Est contenu dansPrix et récompensesDistinctionsListes notables
"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family and his education, psychological development, and sexual maturation draw on numerous sources, some still unpublished, including family letters, schoolmates' memoirs, and early diaries of his close friend Max Brod.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."-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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