The Diaries of Kafka

"I was really taken with the former English edition of Kafka's Diaries, which is what I read as a teenager," he says. "It just felt much more alive and in motion than the version that I read in English." The old German edition had been partially censored and substantial amounts of material had been cut. He writes: "Those old diaries had not only been sanitized but the sort of disarray that they'd been in tidied up"