The Diaries of Franz Kafka

Author's name: Franz Kafka

Kafka's diaries, narrative texts, and letters came to construct a troubled space.

In it, man stands alone, isolated and naked, confronting hidden and controlling forces, haunted by an overwhelming feeling of futility and the trembling of his being.

Just as Kafka's narrative style, based on agreement, digression, internal dialogue, and the mood between dream and reality, crystallized during that period, which led to the production of extremely ambiguous symbolic worlds that transform the concrete material world into a gelatinous entity haunted by gloom and horror.

In their relationship with Kafka's narrative texts, these diaries constitute an explanatory text that illuminates many of the dimensions of those texts, explains their mysteries, and illuminates the contexts of their birth. Moreover, they shed light on the interior of Kafka's world, revealing many of the crises of that world and the turmoil and sense of futility it witnessed.