The diaries / Franz Kafka ; translated by Ross Benjamin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924, author.

Contributor:

Benjamin, Ross, translator.

Series:

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924. English. 1990 http://viaf.org/viaf/173827051 Works.

The Schocken Kafka library

Standardized Title:

Diaries. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924. Diaries.

Kafka, Franz.

Authors, Austrian--20th century--Diaries.

Authors, Austrian.

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924.

Genre:

diaries.

Diaries.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 670 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Schocken Books, [2022]

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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: DIARIES

First Notebook

Second Notebook

Third Notebook

Fourth Notebook

Fifth Notebook

Sixth Notebook

Seventh Notebook

Eighth Notebook

Ninth Notebook

Bundles of Paper

Tenth Notebook

Eleventh Notebook

Twelfth Notebook

TRAVEL DIARIES

January-February 1911 Trips

August-September 1911 Trip

June-July 1912 Trip

September 1913 Trip.

Notes:

"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.

Translated from the German.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924. Diaries.

ISBN:

9780805243550

0805243550

OCLC:

1295619321