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An essential new translation of the author's complete, uncensored diaries - a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers'The writing glimmers with sensitivity, and openness to the world' - The Wall Street JournalDating from 1909 to 1923, Franz Kafka's Diaries contains a broad array of writing, including accounts of daily events, assorted reflections and observations, literary sketches, drafts of letters, records of dreams, and unrevised texts of stories. This volume makes available for the first time in English a comprehensive reconstruction of Kafka's handwritten diary entries and provides substantial new content, restoring all the material omitted from previous publications - notably, names of people and undisguised details about them, a number of literary writings, and passages of a sexual nature, some of them with homoerotic overtones.By faithfully reproducing the diaries' distinctive - and often surprisingly unpolished - writing as it appeared in Kafka's notebooks, 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.

Un niño deformado encuentra su lugar en la vida: Bartolomé es de estatura baja como un enano, sus pies están deformados y prefiere moverse a cuatro patas. Sus padres lo prohíben, diciéndole que se comporta "como un perro". Al mudarse a Madrid, ocultan con miedo a su hijo desfigurado. Sin embargo, con la ayuda de sus hermanos, Bartolomé aprende a leer y escribir, ya que es muy inteligente. Por casualidad, la infantina lo ve mientras se mueve a cuatro patas y queda fascinada por el "perrito humano", llevándolo a la corte. Bartolomé debe aprender a comportarse como un perrito, siendo maquillado y vestido apropiadamente. Pronto, su papel se convierte en una carga, especialmente cuando otro "juguete" de la infantina, un enano, le hace la vida imposible e incluso intenta matarlo. A pesar de esto, encuentra amigos en la corte, incluido el asistente del pintor que debe retocar su maquillaje y, finalmente, Velázquez. Gracias a ellos, Bartolomé logra cumplir su mayor deseo: dejar de ser el "perrito" y convertirse en pintor en el taller del maestro.

Set in a boarding school in a remote area of the Habsburg Empire at the turn of the last century, The Confusions of Young Torless is an intense study of an adolescent's psychological development as he struggles to come to terms with his conflicting emotions. Through his relationship with two other boys Torless is led into sadistic and sexual encounters with a third pupil which both repel and fascinate him. Estranged from everyday life, Torless gradually learns to accept his experiences and describe them with analytical precision.