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Lädt ... Kafka : die Jahre der Erkenntnis (2008. Auflage)von Reiner Stach
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. As the last in Reiner Stach's magisterial 3-volume biography of Franz Kafka, "The Years of Insight" covers Kafka's last decade, the years 1914-1924. I opened it with some curiosity, and was quickly captivated by its prose. I love this work ! -- it gave me the insight into this odd, enigmatic author that I was seeking. The time span covered in this biography includes Kafka's publication of his best-known, non-posthumous works. These include "The Metamorphosis" (published in 1915), "The Judgment" (1916), "In the Penal Colony" (1919), and "A Country Doctor" (1920). It also includes his re-engagement and 2nd breakup with his fiancé Felice Bauer; his contraction of tuberculosis; his relationships with Julie and Milena, and finally Dora, who was with him until he died (of TB) at the early age of 40. I found "The Years of Insight" to be brilliant, insightful, beautifully written (and therefore, beautifully translated into English), engaging, and entertaining. Despite being 570 pages (with another 65 pages of notes), for me it never dragged, and I looked forward each night to being able to pick up where I'd left off. I underlined passages, made marginal notes, bent down page corners, stick post-it notes at places to go back to -- this is a book that I consumed, and plan to refer to in the future. This volume and the others have been criticized on the grounds that the author goes too far beyond the written record to infer what Kafka must have been thinking at given times, and reasons for his actions. This criticism has some merit; but in light of the extensive written record provided by Kafka's voluminous, daily correspondence, as well as his writings, diaries, and the reminiscences of his friends, Reiner Stach's inferences appear on the whole to be well-founded. Another potential criticism is that the book gives little insight into the meaning of his various literary works. This point is off-the-mark in my view. Analyses of Kafka's writing has occupied literary critics for many decades and has yielded many thousands of works and a wide diversity of views. This biography offers insight into his writings by presenting the circumstances under which they were written. In that respect, it meets the goal of a literary biography, while leaving quarrels over meaning and significance to the self- appointed literary critics. The muted language of my short review does not express my great enthusiasm for this magnificent work. Kafka studies cannot, or at least should not, ever be the same. It's an essential work. I loved reading it. This and Reiner Stach's earlier volume, Kafka: The Decisive Years, were easily the two best books I read in 2014. I'm still processing them, but I cannot recommend them enough to any serious Kafka reader. Kafka's life and work were intricately woven together, and reading about his life at this level of depth only serves to enhance our reading of his original texts. While they are notoriously resistant to interpretation, and often even mystified their creator, there is still so much to glean from them and Stach's ongoing biographical project provides an essential tool to discovery. Zeige 3 von 3
Stach confesses in the foreword to the first volume that “biographers have a dream. . . . They wish to go beyond what was.” Then in typical fashion he continues: “This is impossible.” He has much to say about biography’s methods and challenges, the “pressing . . . question of the hermeneutic horizon,” the difficulties caused by “considerable lacunae.” He believes the time has come to grant biography the status of an independent form of literary art. Yet Stach’s intellectual gifts are not literary ones. He has empathy for Kafka but little imaginative insight. Gehört zur ReiheKafka (3) Auszeichnungen
Sechs Jahre nach dem Erscheinen des 1. Teiles von Reiner Stachs monumentaler Kafka-Biografie (BA 1/03), der in der literarischen Kritik viel Lob erhielt, aber auch kritische Einwendungen provozierte, liegt nun der abschließende 2. Teil vor, der die Jahre 1916-1924 (das Todesjahr Kafkas) in epischer Breite dokumentiert und dabei erstaunlicherweise viele neue Facetten im Leben dieses notorisch schwierigen Menschen, aber auch im Schreibprozess Kafkas sichtbar machen kann. Trotz des Umfangs von erneut über 700 Seiten kommt bei der Lektüre dieser gründlichst recherchierten Biografie nie Langeweile auf, was vor allem dem anschaulichen und fesselnden Erzählstil Stachs zu verdanken ist. Aber auch seine psychologisch subtilen Deutungen des Menschen ebenso wie der Schreibimpulse Kafkas erscheinen mir scharfsichtig und immer plausibel. Ein Standardwerk, das in keinem auch nur etwas umfangreicheren Bestand an Sekundärliteratur zu Kafka fehlen sollte. (2) (Ronald Schneider)
Der erste Band, 2002 unter dem Titel Kafka. Die Jahre der Entscheidungen erschienen, übte auf zahlreiche Leser eine sogartige Wirkung aus. Vor allem der Wechsel zwischen essayistischen und literarischen Passagen, die szenische Vergegenwärtigung, die bisweilen an die Erzählformen des Films erinnert, führt sehr nahe an Kafkas private Existenz und eröffnet zugleich das Panorama seiner Zeit. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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The last two pages were also a good reminder that Kafka, whom Stach often enough presents as the unluckiest human being to ever sink back into the earth (an astonishing presentation, given Kafka's economic and employment standing), was lucky in at least one way: few of those who survived him survived Auschwitz, Treblinka, or the war. ( )