The diaries / Franz Kafka ; translated by Ross Benjamin.
"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, refl...
Uniform Title: | Diaries.
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Language: | English |
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German |
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Translated from the German. |
Published: |
New York :
Schocken Books,
2022.
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Edition: | First edition. |
Series: | Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924. Works. 1990.
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Physical Description: | xxiii, 670 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
Format: | Book |
Summary: |
"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. |
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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. |
Call Number: | PT2621.A26 Z46 2022 |
Bibliography Note: | Includes bibliographical references (567-644) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780805243550 0805243550 |