![]() The humor and light-heartedness sometimes expressed in Kafka’s fiction, as well as the generally positive image arising from recollections by friends and acquaintances, are missing from the diaries. While this is certainly part of Kafka’s character, it is typical for a private journal, not meant for publication, to express more of the writer’s anxieties and worries. 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. The diaries offer an image of a profoundly depressed man, isolated from friends and family, involved in a series of failed relationships, and constantly sick. These diaries cover the years 1910 to 1923, the year before Kafka’s death at the age of forty. These diaries were in the background all through the composition of Kafka’s major works and many of them are discussed and analyzed in detail. ![]() Kafka began keeping the diaries at the age of 27, as an attempt to provoke his stalled creativity, and kept writing in them until 1923, a year before his death. ![]() ![]() Kafka’s diaries offer a detailed view of the writer’s thoughts and feelings, as well as some of his most famous and quotable statements. Franz Kafka’s Diaries, written in German language between 1910-1923, include casual observations, details of daily life, reflections on philosophical ideas, accounts of dreams, and ideas for stories. ![]()
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