The Diaries of Franz Kafka

Franz Kafkas Diaries, dating from 1909 to 1923, are now available in English, offering a comprehensive reconstruction of his handwritten diary entries with substantial new content. The diaries reveal Kafka's sensitivity, openness to the world, and literary genius, with accounts of daily events, reflections, literary sketches, drafts of letters, records of dreams, and unrevised texts of stories. The translation faithfully reproduces the diaries' distinctive writing, making them a valuable work of genius in their own right.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 704 pages
Publication date: 02 May 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Franz Kafka's Diaries, originally written in German, have been translated into English for the first time, offering a comprehensive and uncensored glimpse into the mind of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers. Dating from 1909 to 1923, these diaries contain a wide range of writing, including accounts of daily events, reflections, literary sketches, drafts of letters, records of dreams, and unrevised texts of stories. This new edition makes available for the first time a complete reconstruction of Kafka's handwritten diary entries, restoring all the material omitted from previous publications. It also includes substantial new content, such as names of people and undisguised details about them, literary writings, and passages of a sexual nature, some of them with homoerotic overtones. By faithfully reproducing the diaries' distinctive writing as it appeared in Kafka's notebooks, translator Ross Benjamin brings to light the author's use of the diaries for literary invention and unsparing self-examination, as well as their value as a work of genius in and of themselves. Kafka's Diaries are a testament to the power of writing to capture the essence of human experience and to reveal the depths of the human mind.

Weight: 640g
Dimension: 218 x 135 x 44 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780241695746