{"product_id":"the-diaries-of-franz-kafka-9780805243550","title":"The Diaries of Franz Kafka","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - An essential new translation of the author's complete, uncensored diaries--a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An invaluable addition to Kafka's oeuvre.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn essential new translation of Franz Kafka's complete, uncensored diaries--a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century's most important, influential, and visionary writers Dating from 1909 to 1923, Franz Kafka's \u003ci\u003eDiaries\u003c\/i\u003e contains a broad array of writing, including accounts of daily events, assorted reflections and observations, literary sketches, drafts of letters, records of dreams, and unrevised texts of stories. This volume makes available for the first time in English a comprehensive reconstruction of Kafka's handwritten diary entries and provides substantial new content, restoring all the material omitted from previous publications--notably, names of people and undisguised details about them, a number of literary writings, and passages of a sexual nature, some of them with homoerotic overtones. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy faithfully reproducing the diaries' distinctive-- and often surprisingly unpolished--writing as it appeared in Kafka's notebooks, translator Ross Benjamin brings to light not only the author's use of the diaries for literary invention and unsparing self-examination but also their value as a work of genius in and of themselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFRANZ KAFKA\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Prague in 1883 to German-speaking Jewish parents. During his lifetime, he published groundbreaking short stories, including \"The Judgment,\" \"The Stoker,\" and \"The Metamorphosis.\" After his death in 1924, his friend and literary executor, Max Brod, defied his testamentary instructions to burn all his unpublished writing. Kafka's posthumous work-- including three unfinished novels, \u003ci\u003e The Trial, The Castle, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAmerika\u003c\/i\u003e--brought him worldwide renown. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eROSS BENJAMIN\u003c\/b\u003e's translations include Friedrich H?lderlin's\u003ci\u003e Hyperion, \u003c\/i\u003eJoseph Roth's\u003ci\u003e Job, \u003c\/i\u003e and Daniel Kehlmann's \u003ci\u003eYou Should Have Left \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTyll.\u003c\/i\u003e He was awarded the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for his rendering of Michael Maar's Speak, Nabokov, and he received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work on Franz Kafka's diaries.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Schocken Books Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50605624688914,"sku":"9780805243550","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8f0e6241-f221-4075-a314-67f7cdef6bca.jpg?v=1737292415","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-diaries-of-franz-kafka-9780805243550","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}