Book, Diaries 1909-1923 (Kafka)[LS]

"Everything that is not literature bores me and I hate it", notes Franz Kafka on a certain day in 1913. At that time, the Jewish lawyer was an employee of a labor insurance institute and was beginning to receive modest attention as the author of the novel The verdict. But the glory in lyrics would be posthumous and due to the work of his friend Max Brod. And everything for Kafka was metabolized into literature. Proof of this are these Diaries, one of the literary monuments of the 20th century translated in full for the first time in Brazil by Sergio Tellaroli. These are haunting pages. They constitute what the Argentine writer Ricardo Piglia described as the "writer's laboratory": the space in which the author of The Metamorphosis experimented and honed his writing amidst comments about his time, his readings, his romantic disappointments, drafts of letters , reports of dreams, charming beginnings of literary works that were never completed, as well as several finished stories. Dating from 1909 to 1923, the Diaries open a door not only to the flesh-and-blood man that was Franz Kafka. They also present the journey through the brilliant and somewhat tortured mind of an unrivaled artist. This volume, which follows the most complete editions of the author's personal records, makes available for the first time a comprehensive reconstruction of the Diaries' entries and provides substantial new content, including details, names, literary works, and passages of a sexual nature that were omitted in the first editions. . From walks around Prague to going to the theater, from the stormy relationship with his religious heritage to his vision of the First World War — including women, family, illness and literary life. Each page of these Diaries offers a journey through one man's personal struggle to find himself.