Kafka: The Decisive Years

(Princeton University Press) This second volume of Kafka’s biography looks at the best-documented years of Kafka’s life, from 1910 to 1915. During this period he produced his most seminal writings, such as The Trial and The Metamorphosis. During these years he also was fascinated with Zionism, was tumultuously engaged to Felice Bauer, and witnessed the outbreak of World War I. Frisch was awarded the Modern Language Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for this translation.