The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1923
- Publisher : Penguin Random House
- Publishing year : October 1988
- Binding : Paperback
- ISBN : 9780805209068
- Imprint : Schocken
- Age Group : Adult
- Language : English
These diaries cover the years 1910 to 1923, the year before Kafka’s death at the age of forty. They provide a pene ...
These diaries cover the years 1910 to 1923, the year before Kafka’s death at the age of forty. They provide a penetrating look into life in Prague and into Kafka’s accounts of his dreams, his feelings for the father he worshipped and the woman he could not bring himself to marry, his sense of guilt, and his feelings of being an outcast. They offer an account of a life of almost unbearable intensity.
Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924) is a Jewish Czechoslovakian who wrote in German, and who ranks among the twentieth-century's most acclaimed writers. His works evoke anxiety, alienation and uncertainty in a world that is largely unfeeling and unfamiliar. He bequeathed his main body of work to long-time friend Max Brod, asking for it to be burned unread. Brod disobeyed Kafka's, whose work is now considered among the most original in Western literature.
