Reiner Stach worked extensively on the definitive edition of Kafka's collected works before embarking on this three-volume biography. The second volume, Kafka: The Decisive Years (Princeton), is also available. The first volume, covering Kafka's childhood and youth, is forthcoming. Shelley Frisch's translation of the second volume was awarded the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize. She has translated many other books from German, including biographies of Nietzsche and Einstein, and she holds a PhD in German literature from Princeton University.
发表于2024-12-28
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图书标签: 卡夫卡 传记 非虚构 文学研究 bio-autobio Franz-Kafka
This volume of Reiner Stach's acclaimed and definitive biography of Franz Kafka tells the story of the final years of the writer's life, from 1916 to 1924--a period during which the world Kafka had known came to an end. Stach's riveting narrative, which reflects the latest findings about Kafka's life and works, draws readers in with a nearly cinematic power, zooming in for extreme close-ups of Kafka's personal life, then pulling back for panoramic shots of a wider world scarred by World War I, disease, and inflation.
In these years, Kafka was spared military service at the front, yet his work as a civil servant brought him into chilling proximity with its grim realities. He was witness to unspeakable misery, lost the financial security he had been counting on to lead the life of a writer, and remained captive for years in his hometown of Prague. The outbreak of tuberculosis and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire constituted a double shock for Kafka, and made him agonizingly aware of his increasing rootlessness. He began to pose broader existential questions, and his writing grew terser and more reflective, from the parable-like Country Doctor stories and A Hunger Artist to The Castle.
A door seemed to open in the form of a passionate relationship with the Czech journalist Milena Jesenská. But the romance was unfulfilled and Kafka, an incurably ill German Jew with a Czech passport, continued to suffer. However, his predicament only sharpened his perceptiveness, and the final period of his life became the years of insight.
痴狂者视文学如生命,卡夫卡的生命就是文学。他以自己为原材料,熔铸文学作品。外绝于他人,痛苦而又难以自制地玩弄自己,真正一出纯粹的文学的悲剧。读来真的有些恐惧感。卡夫卡习惯于站在疏离的角度观察这个周边的世界,他深深地知道,观察得来的生活并不是真正的生活。他获得了关于这个世界的知识,却失去了真正的生活。然而,他无法控制自己。
评分痴狂者视文学如生命,卡夫卡的生命就是文学。他以自己为原材料,熔铸文学作品。外绝于他人,痛苦而又难以自制地玩弄自己,真正一出纯粹的文学的悲剧。读来真的有些恐惧感。卡夫卡习惯于站在疏离的角度观察这个周边的世界,他深深地知道,观察得来的生活并不是真正的生活。他获得了关于这个世界的知识,却失去了真正的生活。然而,他无法控制自己。
评分痴狂者视文学如生命,卡夫卡的生命就是文学。他以自己为原材料,熔铸文学作品。外绝于他人,痛苦而又难以自制地玩弄自己,真正一出纯粹的文学的悲剧。读来真的有些恐惧感。卡夫卡习惯于站在疏离的角度观察这个周边的世界,他深深地知道,观察得来的生活并不是真正的生活。他获得了关于这个世界的知识,却失去了真正的生活。然而,他无法控制自己。
评分痴狂者视文学如生命,卡夫卡的生命就是文学。他以自己为原材料,熔铸文学作品。外绝于他人,痛苦而又难以自制地玩弄自己,真正一出纯粹的文学的悲剧。读来真的有些恐惧感。卡夫卡习惯于站在疏离的角度观察这个周边的世界,他深深地知道,观察得来的生活并不是真正的生活。他获得了关于这个世界的知识,却失去了真正的生活。然而,他无法控制自己。
评分痴狂者视文学如生命,卡夫卡的生命就是文学。他以自己为原材料,熔铸文学作品。外绝于他人,痛苦而又难以自制地玩弄自己,真正一出纯粹的文学的悲剧。读来真的有些恐惧感。卡夫卡习惯于站在疏离的角度观察这个周边的世界,他深深地知道,观察得来的生活并不是真正的生活。他获得了关于这个世界的知识,却失去了真正的生活。然而,他无法控制自己。
Kafka 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书