Briefe an Milena vs Tagebücher: Which Should You Read?

Briefe an Milena Franz Kafka · 1952 ★★★★☆ 3.9 360 pages · ≈ 6 h 40 m · Moderate

Letters to Milena is a book collecting some of Franz Kafka's letters to Milena Jesenská from 1920 to 1923. Publication history ----------------------- The letters were originally published in German in 1952 as Briefe…

Tagebücher Franz Kafka · 1937 ★★★★☆ 4.0 719 pages · ≈ 13 h 19 m · Challenging

These diaries cover the years 1910 to 1923, the year before Kafka’s death at the age of forty. They provide a penetrating look into life in Prague and into Kafka’s accounts of his dreams, his feelings for the father he…