The Diaries of Franz Kafka

Available for the first time in English (in Ross Benjamins highly readable translation) these unexpurgated diaries take an axe to the somewhat frozen sea of Kafkas image. The genius we are all familiar with pulses off every page, but these entries alsothrough their humour, compassion, neuroses, and desireshow us something that has often been lacking in portrayals of this writer; his humanity.