Author:
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924, author.
Edition Statement:First edition.
ImprintNew York : Schocken Books, [2022]
Descriptionxxiii, 670 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Note:"Originally published in Germany in two volumes as Tagebücher in der Fassung der Handschrift by S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, in 1990." --Title page verso.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"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."-- Provided by publisher.
