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It brings together varied materials such as daily entries, reflections, literary sketches, drafts, dream accounts, autobiographical recollections, reading notes, descriptions of people, bodily observations, planned-work outlines, aphorisms, and unfinished prose. The translator’s preface frames these notebooks as a workshop where life and literature blur, showing Kafka revising and shaping his writing with relentless intensity.","Translation copyright © 2022 by Ross Benjamin  \nAll rights reserved. Published in the United States by Schocken Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in Germany in two volumes as Tagebücher in der Fassung der Handschrift by S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, in 1990. Copyright © 1990 by Schocken Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.  \nSchocken Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House  \nLLC.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Names: Kafka, Franz, 1883–1924, author. Benjamin, Ross, translator.  \nTitle: The diaries / Franz Kafka; translated by Ross Benjamin.  \nOther titles: Diaries  \nDescription: First edition. New York: Schocken Books, 2022. Series: The Schocken Kafka library. Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: 􀂐􀂇􀂇􀂒 2022000201 (print) . 􀂐􀂇􀂇􀂒 2022000202 (ebook) . 􀂍􀂗􀂆􀂒 9780805243550 (hardcover) . 􀂍􀂗􀂆􀂒 9780805243567 (ebook) .  \nSubjects: 􀂐􀂇􀂗􀂌: Kafka, Franz, 1883–1924—Diaries. Authors, Austrian—20th  \ncentury—Diaries. 􀂐􀂇􀂋􀂊􀂘: Diaries.  \nClassification: 􀂐􀂇􀂇 􀂔􀂘2621 .􀂅26 􀂞46 2022 (print) | 􀂐􀂇􀂇 􀂔􀂘2621 .􀂅26 (ebook) | 􀂈􀂈􀂇  \n833/ .912 [􀂆]—dc23/eng/20220204 􀂐􀂇 record available at [https://lccn](https://lccn).loc.gov/2022000201 􀂐􀂇 ebook record available at [https://lccn](https://lccn).loc.gov/2022000202  \nEbook ISBN 9780805243567  \n[www.schocken.com](www.schocken.com)  \nCover design by Peter Mendelsund  \nep_prh_6.0_ 142226817_c0_r0  \nContents  \nTranslator’s Preface: Glimpses into Kafka’s Workshop  \nDIARIES  \nFirst Notebook  \nSecond Notebook  \nThird Notebook  \nFourth Notebook  \nFifth Notebook  \nSixth Notebook  \nSeventh Notebook  \nEighth Notebook  \nNinth Notebook  \nBundles of Paper  \nTenth Notebook  \nEleventh Notebook  \nTwelfth Notebook  \nTRAVEL DIARIES  \nJanuary-February 1911 Trips  \nAugust-September 1911 Trip  \nJune-July 1912 Trip September 1913 Trip  \nNotes  \nChronology  \nIndex  \nTranslator’s Preface: Glimpses into Kafka’s Workshop  \nFranz Kafka (1883–1924) so enthralled the twentieth-century literary imagination that he came to be seen as the representative genius of the modern age. To this day an ever-expanding cosmos of secondary literature swirls around his work. At the same time, scholars have widely acknowledged that this work is too singular and elusive to be subject to any reductive interpretation. After all, how far can analytical methods be applied to fiction that borrows its logic from the liminal space between waking and dreaming? Often writing deep into the night, Kafka explored this unstable and destabilizing terrain in stories that have long been enshrined in the pantheon of modern literature. Yet his vision, idiom, and sensibility did not appear fully formed from the outset. Rather they were wrought and wrestled into being in the same arena where many writers enact the drama of linguistic self-creation—in his notebooks.  \nBetween 1909 and 1923, Kafka kept various notebooks that he called his Tagebücher, or “diaries.” In the pages of these notebooks, he interspersed many different kinds of writing: entries recording daily events, reflections, and observations; literary sketches; drafts of letters, reviews, and other texts; accounts of dreams; autobiographical recollections; impressions, synopses, and critical considerations of books, plays, and other cultural events and phenomena; descriptions of people with whom he was acquainted or crossed paths, particularly their physical appearances, gestures, clothing, habits of  \nspeech and communication; examinations of his own bodily states and symptoms, moods and perceptions, inner conflicts and predicaments; outbursts of anguish and bouts of self-torment; outlines for planned works; excerpts from his reading material; snapshots of his urban environment, his family and office spheres, and the social and cultural milieus in which he moved; sporadic jottings; enigmatic aphorisms; and all-","cbCailQ7jdqjHutQ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCailQ7jdqjHutQ","pdf",12759452,4,1,961,"English","en",105,"# Translator’s Preface: Glimpses into Kafka’s Workshop\n# DIARIES\n## First Notebook\n## Second Notebook\n## Third Notebook\n## Fourth Notebook\n## Fifth Notebook\n## Sixth Notebook\n## Seventh Notebook\n## Eighth Notebook\n## Ninth Notebook\n## Bundles of Paper\n## Tenth Notebook\n## Eleventh Notebook\n## Twelfth Notebook\n# TRAVEL DIARIES\n## January–February 1911 Trips\n## August–September 1911 Trip\n## June–July 1912 Trip\n## September 1913 Trip\n## Notes\n## Chronology\n## Index","[{\"question\":\"What kinds of writing are included in Kafka’s diaries?\",\"answer\":\"The diaries combine daily event entries with reflections and observations, literary sketches, drafts of letters and reviews, dream accounts, autobiographical recollections, and notes on reading and cultural events. 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