The Diaries of Franz Kafka |
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Author:
| Kafka, Franz |
Translator:
| Benjamin, Ross |
Series title: | The Schocken Kafka Library |
ISBN: | 978-0-8052-4355-0 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2023 |
Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Imprint: | Schocken |
Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $45.00 |
Book Description:
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An essential new translation of the author's complete, uncensored diaries-a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers. "An invaluable addition to Kafka's oeuvre."-The New York Times 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...
More Description An essential new translation of the author's complete, uncensored diaries-a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers.
"An invaluable addition to Kafka's oeuvre."-The New York Times
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.