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# The Diaries of Franz Kafka (The Schocken Kafka Library) Hardcover – January 10, 2023

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Journal of a Paradigmatic Figure
*by A***S on February 3, 2023*

Kafka’s Diaries make for difficult reading; not least because of the fact that they’re not really diaries but more of a writer’s journal. Combined within one text are drafts of short stories, reviews of theater, brutal self-examinations as well as what are more or less journal entries.For me, Kafka is somewhat of a paradigmatic figure. Through his novels and short stories he described the loss of the individual in the mass of totalitarian ideologies that so dominated the twentieth century. And so, this writer’s journal should enable us to see within Kafka’s soul and understand how he could express mid twentieth century experience some forty years before it transpired.To some extent, it does. His agonizingly broken relationship with his father, his feeling as both an insider and outsider due to his Jewry, his expressions of futility at establishing any kind of loving relationship…all these obviously contributed to works like the Trial and the Castle.But either because the journal is so disjointed—for example, literary criticism followed immediately by extraneous autobiographic details—or because of the fundamental complexity of his makeup, Kafka’s work does remain somewhat enigmatic. Its indisputable worth as literature surpasses the man making casual remarks about life in early twentieth century Prague.Despite its difficulty, despite the depressing tone of a man gradually succumbing to Tuberculosis while failing in all his human relationships, it’s a work worth reading for all trying to see into the darkness that was much of twentieth century Europe. Not an uplifting read, but an invaluable one.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fascinating development
*by P***P on May 16, 2024*

It is an important development to have Kafka’s diary translated in full. You receive a better understanding of his time and place as well as how his literary mind worked.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Brilliant translation
*by A***R on June 11, 2024*

Stellar work from Ross Benjamin. The diaries come alive like never before in English.

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