Prague Insurance Office civil servant and author Dr. Franz Kafka died young at the age of 40.

He retired at the age of 39 and died of lung disease in a sanatorium near Vienna.

Franz Kafka left behind classic works such as "The Castle", "The Litigation", "The Judgment" and "The Metamorphoses".

Together with French writer Marcel Proust and Irish writer James Joyce, he is known as the pioneer and master of Western modernist literature.

　　2022 is the 100th anniversary of Kafka's "Castle". Guangxi Normal University and Shanghai Beibeit's "Literary Monument Series" will soon launch the "Kafka Biography" trilogy, and the first "Kafka Biography: The Key" years".

The author of the book, Stach, has absorbed many Kafka research results that have not been published so far, and presented Kafka's inner and outer world with a vivid and vivid narrative.

　　In this biography, the author leads readers to "step into" Kafka's life and solve the mystery of his creation.

This is the most detailed and extensive biography of Kafka to date, and has won awards such as the Leipzig Book Fair Award and the Heimito von Dodler Award.

　　Measuring Kafka's life by the prevailing set of happiness parameters, every aspect of Kafka's life is incomplete: health, family life, pastimes, adventure, independence, career.

　　Kafka was still living with his parents at the age of 30 and had a small circle of friends.

He witnessed World War I, his fortune was eaten up by disease and hyperinflation, and he was engaged three times in his life, but never married and had no children.

Even if there is a slight sense of happiness, it takes a lot of time to get it, and it has never been free and happy...

　　Kafka devoted a lot of time and energy to literature.

Biography of Kafka: Key Years focuses on the key years from 1910 to 1915 that determined Kafka's creation and life.

This is the most detailed period of Kafka's life to be recorded, and it is also the most important stage of his life.

　　The once free-spirited and easily influenced young Kafka turned into a dedicated civil servant and grew into a master of "Kafkaesque humor."

He went through some painful events that shaped his self-image, especially the dissolution of the engagement in the weeks before the war.

　　Between 1912 and 1914, Kafka went through two highly productive creative stages, "explosive" writing breakthrough works such as "The Judgment", "The Metamorphosis", "The Missing Man" and "Proceedings", paving the way for his the path of art.

　　After 20 years of dedicated research, the author of "The Biography of Kafka: Key Years" has consulted a large number of first-hand materials, and the book presents daily life, Prague's social environment, war, and love with Phyllis like a panoramic movie. Wait for the imprint of every element and experience on Kafka.

These six years constitute the center of Kafka's life.

　　In this biography, we may find the key to the mystery of Kafka's creation at this stage.

Cover reporter Wang Hui