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It is likely that these journals will be regarded as one of [Kafka's] major literary works; his life and personality were perfectly suited to the diary form, and in these pages he reveals what he customarily hid from the world." -- New Yorker

"What seems to hold [the diaries] together is a kind of ruthless honesty and self-awareness." -- New York Times

Though Franz Kafka is one of the greatest and most widely read and discussed authors of the twentieth century, and continues to be a tremendous influence on artists of our time, he remains an elusive figure, his life and work open to endless interpretation.

These diaries reveal the essential Kafka behind the enigmatic artist. Covering the period from 1910 to 1923, the year before Kafka's death at the age of forty, they provide a penetrating look into Kafka's world -- notes on life in Prague, accounts of his dreams, his feelings for the father he worshipped and for the woman he could not bring himself to marry, his sense of guilt and of being an outcast, and his struggles and triumphs in expressing himself as a writer.

Now, for the first time in this country, the complete diaries of Franz Kafka are available in one volume. They are not only indispensable to an understanding of Kafka the man and the artist, but are a compulsively readable, haunting account of a life of almost unbearable intensity.

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Text: English, German (translation)

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The onlookers go rigid when the train goes past. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Franz Kafka, Baal Shem, New York, Bar Kokhba, Max Brod, Der Wilde Mensch, Eastern Jews, Zaddik Hador, Ernst Weiss, First Long Train, Ivan Ilyich, Kol Nidre, Otto Pick, Prince Albert, Chotek Park, Country Doctor, Jacob Gordin, Johan August Strindberg, Johann Heinrich, Mendele Mocher Sforim, National Theatre, Opéra Comique, Oskar Baum, Polish Jews, Sholom Aleichem New!
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