Kafka, the early years

1. Nothing Happening in Prague

2. The Curtain Rises

3. Giants: The Kafkas from Wosek

4. Julie Löwy

5. Losing Propositions

6. Thoughts about Freud

7. Kafka, Franz: Model Student

8. A City Energized

9. Elli, Valli, Ottla

10. Latin, Bohemian, Mathematics, and Other Matters of the Heart

11. Jewish Lessons

12. Innocence and Impudence

13 The Path to Freedom

14 To Hell with German Studies

15. Friend Max

16. Enticements

17. Informed Circles: Utitz, Weltsch, Fanta, Bergmann

18. Autonomy and Recovery

19. The Interior Landscape: "Description of a Struggle"

20 Doctor of Law Seeking Employment

21. Off to the Prostitutes

22. Cafés, Geishas, Art, and Cinema

23. The Formidable Assistant Official

24. The Secret Writing School

25. Landing in Brescia

26. In the Heart of the West

27. Ideas and Spirits: Buber, Steiner, Einstein

28. Literature and Tourism.