Franz Kafka

Praise for The Diaries of Franz Kafka

One of the finest translating achievements in recent history

Literary Review

A new translation of the writer’s diaries from his twenties restores them to how he wrote them: chaotic, sometimes incoherent and full of black comedy. ThrillingThe diaries will open your e ...

John Self, The Times

An unprecedented, almost 600-page peephole into the mind of a writer whose published prose is otherwise classically abstract and inscrutable. It’s some secret to be let into

Tanjil Rashid, FT

One of the finest translating achievements in recent history

Literary Review

A new translation of the writer’s diaries from his twenties restores them to how he wrote them: chaotic, sometimes incoherent and full of black comedy. ThrillingThe diaries will open your e ...

John Self, The Times

An unprecedented, almost 600-page peephole into the mind of a writer whose published prose is otherwise classically abstract and inscrutable. It’s some secret to be let into

Tanjil Rashid, FT

One of the finest translating achievements in recent history

Literary Review

A new translation of the writer’s diaries from his twenties restores them to how he wrote them: chaotic, sometimes incoherent and full of black comedy. ThrillingThe diaries will open your e ...

John Self, The Times

An unprecedented, almost 600-page peephole into the mind of a writer whose published prose is otherwise classically abstract and inscrutable. It’s some secret to be let into

Tanjil Rashid, FT

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