The Diaries of Franz Kafka

''The writing glimmers with sensitivity, and openness to the world'' - The Wall Street Journal

Dating from 1909 to 1923, Franz Kafka’s Diaries contains a broad array of writing, including accounts of daily events, assorted reflections and observations, literary sketches, drafts of letters, records of dreams, and unrevised texts of stories. This volume makes available for the first time in English a comprehensive reconstruction of Kafka’s handwritten diary entries and provides substantial new content, restoring all the material omitted from previous publications — notably, names of people and undisguised details about them, a number of literary writings, and passages of a sexual nature, some of them with homoerotic overtones.

By faithfully reproducing the diaries’ distinctive — and often surprisingly unpolished — writing as it appeared in Kafka’s notebooks, translator Ross Benjamin brings to light not only the author’s use of the diaries for literary invention and unsparing self-examination but also their value as a work of genius in and of themselves.<>

Product details

• Authors: Franz Kafka
• Assisted by: Ross Benjamin (Translation), Benjamin Ross (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.05.2024
• EAN: 9780241695746
• ISBN: 978-0-241-69574-6
• No. of pages: 704
• Dimensions: 136 mm x 216 mm x 45 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, PHILOSOPHY / Essays, Autobiography: literary, Prague, Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Western philosophy from c 1800, Literary essays, Penguin Classics, Autobiography: historical, political and military, Diaries, letters and journals, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Autobiography: writers, Autobiography: philosophy and social sciences, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern