德国卡夫卡研究专家、传记作家施塔赫耗时18年完成的三卷本巨著《卡夫卡传》是卡夫卡去世后的四分之三个世纪里在德国出版的第一部卡夫卡传。该书出版后好评如潮,影响深远,是一部真正意义上的卡夫卡全传。施塔赫采用一种“入乎其内出乎其外”的写作方式,力图描绘出一个多面的卡夫卡、一个真实的卡夫卡。从这个意义上说,不仅是施塔赫选择了卡夫卡,也是卡夫卡选择了施塔赫。该书不作空洞的描述,所有细节包括直观的事件,都有文献可考。施塔赫还补充了许多有关卡夫卡的新材料。一位伟大的作家、一位杰出的传记作者加上几位优秀的译者共同奏响了一出精美的“力之舞”,保证了这部传记的品味和质量。

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.