The Diaries, 1910-1923 9780805209068, 0805209069

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Copyright 1948,1949 by'Schocken Books Inc. Copyright renewed 1975,1976 by Schocken Books, Inc. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the U nited States by Schocken Books In c., New York. D istributed by Pantheon Books, a division of R andom H ouse, In c., N ew York.

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This translation of Tagebucher von K afka was originally published in the U nited States in two separate volumes by Schocken Books Inc. in 1948 and 1949. T his one-volume edition first published in Great Britain by Peregrine Books, an im print of Penguin Books L td ., London, in 1964.

The Diaries o f Franz K afka 1910-13 translated from the Germ an by Joseph K resh The Diaries o f Franz K afka 1914-23 translated from the G erm an by M artin Greenberg with the cooperation of H annah A rendt

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CONTENTS

Only longer compositions, or those of a finished nature, are listed here. DIARIES 1910 The Dancer Eduardova *My education has done me great harm. . 1 5 ‘“ You,” I said, and gave him a little shove with my knee* ‘I have now examined my desk more closely . . 3 DIARIES 1911 The Urban World My visit to Dr Steiner The Four Friends The Yiddish Theatre Troupe ‘I walked through a long row of houses . . - a dream ‘I dreamed today of a donkey. . . . ’ ‘Everything theatre’ - a dream ‘It seems so dreadful to be a bachelor . . 1 1 ‘In the theatre’ - a dream ‘The education of girls . . .* ‘The unhappiness of the bachelor . . . ’ ‘If one patiently submits to a book of letters or memoirs . . . ’ The Literature of Small Peoples ‘I was unusually badly dressed . . 1 5 DIARIES 1912 The Sudden Walk Resolutions ‘ I opened the front door . . 1 A Perfect Fool ‘He seduced a girl. . . ’ ‘I was riding with my father . . . ’ - a dream The Invention of the Devil New York Harbour - a dream Gustav Blenkelt

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DIARIES 1913 Comments on ‘The Judgement* Ernst Liman ‘Who am I, then?’ Wilhelm Menz, a Book-keeper ‘On a rising way . . . ’ - a dream In the Sanatorium - a dream The Merchant Messner

214 214 216 235 235 236 239 240

DIARIES 1914 Joseph the Coachman The White Horse The Landlady My Neighbour I make Plans Bruder, a City Official Temptation in the Village The Life of a Society The Angel The Thief Bauz the Director Memoirs of the Kalda Railway

250 268 269 271 272 274 277 280 289 290 298 299 303

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DIARIES 1915

The Sword

324 327

DIARIES 1916 Hans and Amalia A Singular Judicial Procedure

355 357 368

DIARIES 1917

Fragment of ‘The Hunter Gracchus’ Seeking Advice Fragments of ‘In the Penal Colony’

373 373 377 380

DIARIES 1919

390

DIARIES 1920

391

DIARIES 1921 DIARIES 1922

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DIARIES 1923

423

TRAVEL DIARIES

425 427 433

Trip to Friedland and Reichenberg, 1911 Trip to Switzerland, Italy, Paris, and Erlenbach, 1911

CONTENTS

The Tricycle and the Motor-car Trip to Weimar and Jungbom, 1912 POSTSC RIPT

462 466 489

NOTES

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CHRONOLOGY 1883-1924

503

LIST OF AU THORS, ARTISTS, PERIO DICALS, AND WORKS

505

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