Template:Did you know nominations/Reiner Stach

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The result was: promoted by — Crisco 1492 (talk) 22:50, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

Reiner Stach

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... that Reiner Stach (pictured) has written two of three volumes of his massive Franz Kafka biographical trilogy?

Reviewed: The Hinds Head
Comment: moved from user to main space on 1 Oct 2012

Created/expanded by PumpkinSky (talk), Gerda Arendt (talk). Nominated by PumpkinSky (talk) at 00:51, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

ALT1:... that in his biographical trilogy of Franz Kafka, Reiner Stach (pictured) ends with Kafka's youth? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:39, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

Love that alt1, great lead with pic or quirky slot!PumpkinSky talk 20:41, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

Length, date, original hook's ref verified. No apparent paraphrasing issues. All paragraphs sourced. (No to ALT1 as Kafka's youth book has yet to be written.) --Rosiestep (talk) 01:55, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

I confess that I am not happy with the original hook as being too general, saying no more than "massive". Quoted from the same review we might say more specifically:

ALT2:... that in his biographical trilogy of Franz Kafka, Reiner Stach (pictured) "gives us a vivid portrait of the cramped family household in which Kafka lived until he was 30"?

ALT3:... that in his biographical trilogy of Franz Kafka, Reiner Stach (pictured) "is borrowing his subject's style ... almost even his voice"? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:09, 2 October 2012 (UTC)