Description
Available in English for the first time, this volume presents the complete, uncensored diaries of one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers. Covering the years 1909 to 1923, Franz Kafka’s diaries include accounts of daily events, reflections and observations, literary sketches, draft letters, dreams and unrevised story texts. This comprehensive reconstruction of Kafka’s handwritten diary entries restores material omitted from earlier publications, including people’s names and undisguised details about them, additional literary writing and passages of a sexual nature, some with homoerotic overtones. By faithfully reproducing the distinctive, often surprisingly unpolished writing of Kafka’s notebooks, translator Ross Benjamin reveals the diaries’ role in literary invention and uncompromising self-examination, as well as their value as a work of genius in their own right.
Information
Author: Kafka Franz
Language: English
Publication date: May 1, 2025
Manufacturer: The Book Service Ltd (Penguin)
Genres: English literature, Books, Foreign language books, Czech fiction in english, Czech authors in english, English novels, Fiction in english
Type: Books - paperback
Pages: 670
ISBN/EAN: 9780241695753