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“In selecting this volume of Reiner Stach’s richly detailed 3-volume biography of Franz Kafka, elegantly translated by Shelley Frisch (volume 2 is Kafka: The Decisive Years and volume 3, Kafka: The Years of Insight), I am chiefly engaged by its newness. Contrary to appearances, this is the last book of the three to appear, owing to the author’s wish to consult materials to which he has had exclusive access. These notebooks and letters are now held by the Israeli National Library after taking possession of Kafka’s papers stored in vaults in Zurich and Tel Aviv and an ill-assorted heap allegedly scattered about the house of the aged, cat-loving daughter of Max Brod’s secretary.” Read more...
Stanley Corngold, Literary Scholar
