The sole previous English edition, with Brod’s edits, was issued in the late 1940s'.

In 2023, the first unexpurgated edition of Kafka’s diaries was published in English, 'more than three decades after this complete text appeared in German. Kafka’s diaries offer a detailed view of the writer's thoughts and feelings, as well as some of his most famous and quotable statements. Initially published in 19 by Schocken Books in two volumes, The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1910-1913 and The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1914-1923, they were brought together in a single volume in 1964. Franz Kafka's Diaries, written in German language between 1910-1923, include casual observations, details of daily life, reflections on philosophical ideas, accounts of dreams, and ideas for stories. The humor and light-heartedness sometimes expressed in Kafka's fiction, as well as the generally positive image arising from recollections by friends and acquaintances, are missing from the diaries.

While this is certainly part of Kafka's character, it is typical for a private journal, not meant for publication, to express more of the writer's anxieties and worries. The diaries offer an image of a profoundly depressed man, isolated from friends and family, involved in a series of failed relationships, and constantly sick. These diaries were in the background all through the composition of Kafka's major works and many of them are discussed and analyzed in detail. Kafka began keeping the diaries at the age of 26, as an attempt to provoke his stalled creativity, and kept writing in them until 1923, a year before his death. OL498476W Page_number_confidence 96.05 Pages 534 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.12 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210501000740 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 351 Scandate 20210424010459 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780805209068 Tts_version 4.Franz Kafka's Diaries, written in German language between 1910-1923, include casual observations, details of daily life, reflections on philosophical ideas, accounts of dreams, and ideas for stories. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 04:00:56 Associated-names Brod, Max, 1884-1968 Boxid IA40106501 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

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