The Diaries of Franz Kafka

The Diaries of Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka, Ross Benjamin
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Hardback
h242 x 163mm - 704pg
10 Jan 2023 US
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9780805243550
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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. "This new and scrupulously faithful translation of the Diaries brings us. . . the true inner life of the twentieth century' s most complex and enigmatic literary prophet. " -Cynthia Ozick, author of AntiquitiesDating 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.
FRANZ KAFKA was born in 1883 in Prague, where he lived most of his life. During his lifetime, he published only a few short stories, including "The Metamorphosis," "The Judgment," and "The Stoker. " He died in 1924, before completing any of his full-length novels. At the end of his life, Kafka asked his lifelong friend and literary executor Max Brod to burn all his unpublished work. Brod overrode those wishes.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780805243550
Published: 10 Jan 2023
Published In: United States
Imprint: Schocken Books
Publisher: Schocken Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 242mm
Width: 163mm
Spine: 40mm
Weight: 992g
Pages: 704

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