| The Diaries of Franz Kafka Contributor(s): Kafka, Franz (Author), Benjamin, Ross (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0805243550 ISBN-13: 9780805243550 Publisher: Schocken Books Inc OUR PRICE: $40.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2023 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Literary Collections | Diaries & Journals - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2022000201 |
| Physical Information: 1.73" H x 6.39" W x 9.53" (2.2 lbs) 704 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. 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. |