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Kafka: The Early Years
by Reiner Stach, translated by Shelley Frisch.
Princeton, 564 pp., £27.95, November 2016,978 0 691 15198 4 Show More
by Reiner Stach, translated by Shelley Frisch.
Princeton, 564 pp., £27.95, November 2016,
“... cheap Parker pens.’Children are mostly wrong, but also superior to us. Reading Reiner Stach’s Kafka: The Early Years, I found myself thinking often of Sendak. Maybe this is only because I read too many children’s books too many times, and such rereading makes Kabbalah from anything. Or maybe, more tendentiously, because Sendak and ... ”