Dating from 1909 to 1923, the handwritten diaries contain various kinds of writing: accounts of daily events, reflections, observations, literary sketches, drafts of letters, accounts of dreams, as well as finished stories. This volume makes available for the first time in English a comprehensive reconstruction of the diary entries and provides substantial new content, including details, names, literary works, and passages of a sexual nature that were omitted from previous publications. By faithfully reproducing the diaries' distinctive-and often surprisingly unpolished-writing in Kafka's notebooks, translator Ross Benjamin brings to light not only the author's use of the diaries for literary experimentation and private self-expression, but also their value as a work of art in themselves.
| ISBN: | 9780805243550 |
| Publication date: | 29th December 2022 |
| Author: | Franz Kafka |
| Publisher: | Schocken Books |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 672 pages |
| Series: | The Schocken Kafka Library |
| Genres: |
Diaries, letters and journals Memoirs |