Penguin Modern Classics.Note: Cover may differ from that shown. This edition published in 1982, foxing, creaed spine and slight discoloration of cover, minor signs of secondhand wear to cover.

Franz Kafka is the great enigma of early twentieth-century literature. Advocates of Impressionism, Existentialism and even Christianity view with each other in claiming him as an exemplar of their doctrines. He is seen as the successor to Dostoyevsky, the disciple of Kierkegaard and the forerunner of Sartre. Yet beside the profound searching of his great 'trilogy of loneliness' - the words are those of Max Brod, his lifelong friend and editor of his diaries - such controversy seems insignificant.

Kafka's diaries cover the period from 1910-1923, the year before his death at the age of forty. They reveal to us the extraordinary inner world in which he lived.