478 The Diaries of Franz Kafka (with Ross Benjamin)
The History of Literature
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The Diaries of Kafka
The diaries contain all types of writing including draft sufiction and the entirety of the short story the judgement for example. So it's the way he wrote when he in the act of creation probably everything he wrote. He used a more spoken rhythm, he used a lot of contractions that you don't see anywhere in his published works. In there he's more likely to do the kind of self-explanation self-examination and plenty of it's Kafka's a lot of self-condemnation and self-acculation of self-format.
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