Blue Octavo Notebooks

Franz Kafka

ISBN 10: 1878972049 / ISBN 13: 9781878972040

Verlag: Exact Change Sep 2011, 2011

Beschreibung

Neuware - From late 1917 until June 1919, Franz Kafka ceased to keep a diary, for which he had used quarto-size not Elektronisches Buch, instead writing in a series of smaller, octavo-size not Elektronisches Buch. When Kafka's literary executor, Max Brod, published the diaries in 1948, he omitted these not Elektronisches Buch--which include short stories, fragments of stories and other literary writings--because, he wrote, 'notations of a diary nature, dates, are found in them only as a rare exception.' 'The Blue Octavo Not Elektronisches Buch' have thus remained little known and yet are among the most characteristic and brilliantly gnomic of Kafka's work. In addition to otherwise unpublished material, the not Elektronisches Buch contain some of Kafka's most famous aphorisms within their original context. This edition of the English translation has been corrected with reference to the German text for certain omissions and discrepancies of sequence. Followers of Kafka will require this book and will find it most rewarding.' --Library Journal.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781878972040

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Blue Octavo Notebooks
• Verlag: Exact Change Sep 2011
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1878972049
• ISBN-13: 9781878972040
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu

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Inhaltsangabe

Originally omitted from Kafka's famous diaries, these notebooks contain some of Kafka's most famous aphorisms From late 1917 until June 1919, Franz Kafka ceased to keep a diary, for which he had used quarto-size notebooks, instead writing in a series of smaller, octavo-size notebooks. When Kafka's literary executor, Max Brod, published the diaries in 1948, he omitted these notebooks―which include short stories, fragments of stories and other literary writings―because, he wrote, “notations of a diary nature, dates, are found in them only as a rare exception.” The Blue Octavo Notebooks have thus remained little known and yet are among the most characteristic and brilliantly gnomic of Kafka's work. In addition to otherwise unpublished material, the notebooks contain some of Kafka's most famous aphorisms within their original context. This edition of the English translation has been corrected with reference to the German text for certain omissions and discrepancies of sequence. Followers of Kafka will require this book and will find it most rewarding.” –Library Journal.

Reseña del editor

From late 1917 until June 1919, Franz Kafka ceased to keep a diary, for which he had used quarto-size notebooks, instead writing in a series of smaller, octavo-size notebooks. When Kafka's literary executor, Max Brod, published the diaries in 1948, he omitted these notebooks--which include short stories, fragments of stories and other literary writings--because, he wrote, "notations of a diary nature, dates, are found in them only as a rare exception." The Blue Octavo Notebooks have thus remained little known and yet are among the most characteristic and brilliantly gnomic of Kafka's work. In addition to otherwise unpublished material, the notebooks contain some of Kafka's most famous aphorisms within their original context. This edition of the English translation has been corrected with reference to the German text for certain omissions and discrepancies of sequence. Followers of Kafka will require this book and will find it most rewarding." --Library Journal.