Reiner Stach

Reiner Stach, born in 1951 in Saxony, is the author of the definitive biography of Kafka. The first two volumes, published by Princeton University Press, received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly (“superb”), Library Journal (“a monumental accomplishment”), Kirkus (“essential”), and Booklist (“masterful”). “I can’t say enough about the liveliness and richness of Stach’s book,” Michael Dirda exclaimed in The Washington Post. “Every page feels excited, dynamic, utterly alive.”

Reiner Stach

Reiner Stach, born in 1951 in Saxony, is the author of the definitive biography of Kafka. The first two volumes, published by Princeton University Press, received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly (“superb”), Library Journal (“a monumental accomplishment”), Kirkus (“essential”), and Booklist (“masterful”). “I can’t say enough about the liveliness and richness of Stach’s book,” Michael Dirda exclaimed in The Washington Post. “Every page feels excited, dynamic, utterly alive.”

Books by Reiner Stach

  • Is that Kafka?: 99 Finds

    Reiner Stach, Kurt Beals

    Hardback, 2016

    Out of the massive research for an authoritative 1,500-page biography emerges this wunderkammer of 99 delightfully odd facts about Kafka
  • Is that Kafka?: 99 Finds

    Reiner Stach, Kurt Beals

    Paperback, 2017

    Now in paperback, a wunderkammer of 99 delightfully odd facts about Kafka
  • Is that Kafka?: 99 Finds

    Reiner Stach, Kurt Beals

    E Book, 2016

    Out of the massive research for an authoritative 1,500-page biography emerges this wunderkammer of 99 delightfully odd facts about Kafka
  • The Lost Writings

    Franz Kafka, Reiner Stach, Michael Hofmann

    Hardback, 2020

    A windfall for every reader: a trove of marvelous impossible-to-find Kafka stories in a masterful new translation by Michael Hofmann