The Diaries of Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka (Author) Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born of Jewish parents in Prague. Several of his story collections were published in his lifetime and his novels, The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika, were published posthumously by his editor Max Brod.Ross Benjamin (Translator) Ross Benjamin''s translations include Friedrich Hlderlin''s Hyperion, Joseph Roth''s Job, and Daniel Kehlmann''s You Should Have Left and Tyll. He was awarded the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator''s Prize for his rendering of Michael Maar''s Speak, Nabokov, and he received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work on Franz Kafka''s diaries.>

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Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born of Jewish parents in Prague. Several of his story collections were published in his lifetime and his novels, The Trial, The Castle and Amerika, were published posthumously by his editor Max Brod.Ross Benjamin's translations include Friedrich Hölderlin’s Hyperion, Joseph Roth’s Job, and Daniel Kehlmann’s You Should Have Left and Tyll. He was awarded the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize for his rendering of Michael Maar’s Speak, Nabokov, and he received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work on Franz Kafka’s diaries.

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• Authors: Franz Kafka
• Assisted by: Ross Benjamin (Translation), Benjamin Ross (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.05.2025
• EAN: 9780241695753
• ISBN: 978-0-241-69575-3
• No. of pages: 704
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 35 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Diaries, letters & journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, 20th Century, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, Czech Republic, c 1800 to c 1900, Autobiography: literary, Prague, Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Penguin Classics, Diaries, letters and journals, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Autobiography: writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form