Abstract:

Reiner Stach, a biographer and German Kafka expert, has spent 18 years on completing the three-volume biography of Franz Kafka. It is the first Kafka biography published in Germany 75 years later after Kafka’s death. In this biography, a real Kafka in every area of his life is depicted in an inside and panoramic way. All the details including intuitive events can be attested in literature, and Stach also adds a lot of new biographical material. The art style and the quality of this biography are guaranteed by the joint efforts of a great writer, a distinguished biographer and several excellent translators.

Key words: Kafka, Stach, biography, empathy, translation