The Diaries of Kafka: 1910-1923 (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Franz Kafka
- First Published: 1948
- Type of Work: Journals
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Diary
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Literature, Education or educators, Writing, Germany or German people, Insurance
Critical Evaluation:
Around the turn of the century and continuing until the years following World War I, a circle of German writers in Prague exerted great influence on German literature. Franz Werfel, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Max Brod were the most widely read authors of this group, but in the closing decades of the period Franz Kafka, sometimes called the author of anxiety, found an ever increasing audience. Biographers of Kafka complain that his short life does not offer anything dramatic to report: his existence could be termed provincial because the major part of his life,...
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