Status Updates From Kafka: Die frühen Jahre

While at first confounding me, it makes sense that Stach did not start with this book. During his mid twenties Kafka seems to have found his own peculiar way of articulation, radically personalizing his whole experience.
Still glad to have read it first. Stach illuminates both the earlier life of Kafka as well as the social life of Prague around the turn of century equally profoundly and entertainingly. Modernity 101