FRANZ KAFKA - Dagböcker 1914-1923 / SAMLADE SKRIFTER / Översättning och kommentarer Hans Blomqvist Erik Ågren / BAKHÅLL, 2008 / Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9789177422884 / 978-9177422884

Printed in Sweden

Pages 280

Reading Kafka's diaries is a dizzying experience. He entrusts the diary with all his pain, all his despair and all his innermost, Kafkaesque strange musings. "Parents who expect gratitude from their children (there are even those who demand it) are like usurers, they willingly risk the capital, if only they get the interest." "You develop your individuality only after death, only when you are alone. Being dead is to man what Saturday night is to the sweeper, he washes the soot off the body." Ambush is in the process of publishing a newly translated complete edition of Kafka's literary texts, diaries and letters. The edition is bound in hard covers with graphite gray dust jacket, linen thread in the sheets, stylishly designed, printed on premium paper. (NOTE! The parts of this book series are independent in terms of content and publication! They are not numbered! They can be fully purchased and read separately!) - - Franz Kafka was a German-language Jewish writer from Prague, who is known for his absurdist and often nightmarish stories. His works, such as the novels "The Process" and "The Transformation", have been interpreted in many different ways, but often they deal with the individual's powerlessness in the face of an incomprehensible and unpredictable reality. - - Kafka was born in Prague in 1883 and grew up in a Jewish family. He studied law in Prague, but never worked as a lawyer. Instead, he devoted himself to his writing, which he often published under a pseudonym. Kafka was a prolific writer, but published only a few works during his lifetime. - - Kafka's style is often described as absurdist, as it often depicts a reality that does not follow any logical patterns. His stories are often full of symbols and metaphors, which can be interpreted in many different ways. Kafka's influences are many, but among the most prominent are German romanticism, French symbolism, and Jewish mysticism. - - Kafka died of tuberculosis in 1924, aged 40. His work has had a great influence on literature and has inspired many writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Samuel Beckett and Albert Camus. (from Google Bard) --- If you like Franz Kafka, you may also be interested in these authors: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Mann, Jorge Luis Borges, Samuel Beckett.