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The diaries of Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka

  • 541 pages · about 9 hours
  • First published 1937
  • 76 editions
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1 About this book

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.

Good for readers who want: a true life story, a classic, and a long read.

  • Biography
  • Authors, biography
  • Biography & autobiography
  • Classics
  • Memoir
  • Diaries
  • Austrian Authors
  • Authors

2 About Franz Kafka

1883–1924

Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-language Jewish writer from Prague. Widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature, his works fuse elements of realism and the fantastique, and typically feature isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surreal predicaments and incomprehensible bureaucratic powers. The term Kafkaesque has entered the lexicon to describe situations like those depicted in his writings.

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