Franz Kafka is one of the greatest German-language writers, a classic of 20th-century literature who had a huge influence on writers in many countries. Kafka’s diaries and letters are an indispensable part of 20th-century culture. The Austrian classic, who wrote in German in Prague, left behind in literature a “sketch” of 20th-century Europe and gave rise to an artistic current of Modernism—without which it is impossible to understand the essayism and philosophy, cinema and painting of the second half of our century.
This edition includes excerpts from the diaries (1910–1923), “Letter to the Father,” etc.