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THE DIARIES OF FRANZ KAFKA
By: Franz Kafka
Schocken
January 2023
On Sale: January 10, 2023
704 pages
ISBN: 0805243550
EAN: 9780805243550
Kindle: B08LKK1NYB
Hardcover / e-Book
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Anthology | Non-Fiction Biography
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.
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