First line
The onlookers go rigid when the train goes past.
From the jacket flap
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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- Title The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1923
- Author Franz Kafka
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Secon
- Pages 528
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Schocken Books Inc, New York
- Date 1988-10-30
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780805209068 / 0805209069
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 1.1 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 2.79 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Kafka, Franz - Diaries, Authors, Austrian - 20th century - Diaries
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 88042763
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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