The diaries of franz kafka - franz kafka

An essential new translation of the authors complete, uncensored diaries--a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth centurys most influential writers.

This new and scrupulously faithful translation of the Diaries brings us.

the true inner life of the twentieth centurys most complex and enigmatic literary prophet.

--Cynthia Ozick, author of Antiquities 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 Kafkas notebooks, translator Ross Benjamin brings to light not only the authors use of the diaries for literary experimentation and private self-expression, but also their value as a work of art in themselves.