Kafka, the years of insight

Prologue: the ants of Prague

Stepping outside the self

No literary prize for Kafka

"Civilian kavka": the work of war

The marvel of Marienbad

What do I have in common with Jews?

Kafka encounters his readers

The alchemist

Ottla and Felice

The country doctor ventures out

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Zurau's ark

Meditations

Spanish influenza, Czech revolt, Jewish angst

The pariah girl

The unposted letter to Hermann Kafka

Merano, second class

Milena

Living fires

The big nevertheless

Escape to the mountains

Fever and snow: Tatranske Matliary

The internal and the external clock

The personal myth: the castle

Retiree and Hunger artist

The Palestinian

Dora

The edge of Berlin

Last sorrow

Epilogue.