Intro -- Kafka -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Fame - Too Late for the Author -- 2. The Son of a Shopkeeper, Lost in Prague -- 3. What does a Boy Learn at an Imperial and Royal Secondary School? -- 4. University, Society and Language in the Capital of Bohemia -- 5. 'Description of a Struggle': the Insurance Official, his Job, his Plans and his Journeys -- 6. The Only Way to Write! -- 7. Life or Literature? Kafka's Engagements and The Trial -- 8. The Wound -- 9. A Naked Man among the Clothed -- Footnotes -- Notes -- Further Reading.
A biography of Franz Kafka and the city in which he spent every one of his forty years.