Available for the first time in English, these are the complete, uncensored diaries of Franz Kafka. This edition faithfully reconstructs handwritten notes and restores all the material omitted from previous publications. Spontaneous, unpolished, unruly, bizarre, often hilarious — now in a neat paperback. Perfect to dip in and out of. You can really contemplate a single entry for days.

Translator Ross Benjamin brings to light not only the author’s use of the diaries for literary invention and unsparing self-examination but also their value as a work of genius in and of themselves.