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Title	:	Blue Octavo Notebooks
Author	:	Franz Kafka
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 120 pages
Published	:	February 1st 2004 by Exact Change (first published 1989)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Writing. Essays. European Literature. German Literature. Classics. Biography

Blue Octavo Notebooks

Franz Kafka

Paperback | Pages: 120 pages

Rating: 4.12 | 894 Users | 59 Reviews

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From late 1917 until June 1919, Franz Kafka ceased to keep a diary, for which he had used quarto-size notebooks, instead writing in a series of smaller, octavo-size notebooks. When Kafka's literary executor, Max Brod, published the diaries in 1948, he omitted these notebooks--which include short stories, fragments of stories and other literary writings--because, he wrote, -notations of a diary nature, dates, are found in them only as a rare exception.- The Blue Octavo Notebooks have thus remained little known and yet are among the most characteristic and brilliantly gnomic of Kafka's work. In addition to otherwise unpublished material, the notebooks contain some of Kafka's most famous aphorisms within their original context. This edition of the English translation has been corrected with reference to the German text for certain omissions and discrepancies of sequence. Followers of Kafka will require this book and will find it most rewarding.- --Library Journal.

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Original Title:	Die Acht Oktavhefte
ISBN:	1878972049 (ISBN13: 9781878972040)

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Ratings: 4.12 From 894 Users | 59 Reviews

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This book is dense. It took me three weeks to read and it's only 98 pages. My three star rating is based essentially on the form of the book, not the content, but the way in which the content is comprised; the raw composition of the material, which is so totally dense in its original state, and not really organized in any sense other than the order in which it was written, doesn't really work as a book. It's pure Kafka, yeah, but it's almost unbearable to read because it's so compact in

"Sometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones when I come home from the engineering works at night or, in the morning, after a night-shift. I am not strong enough for this work, I have known that for a long time and yet I do nothing to change anything." (23)

Publisher's Note--The First Notebook--The Second Notebook--The Third Notebook--The Fourth Notebook--The Fifth Notebook--The Sixth Notebook--The Seventh Notebook--The Eighth Notebook--Reflections on Sin, Suffering, Hope, and the True Way [Aphorisms]Notes, by Max Brod

Its the old joke. We hold the world fast and complain that it is holding us. A collection of delicate, glinting, captivating fragments, sharp and exquisite as broken glass.

I read this because Tommy Orange recommended it at a book talk. Either Tommy is a bigger Kafka fan than I (probably) or knows something I dont (definitely).

This collection offers a glimpse inside Kafka's brain, which is at times strange, giddy, and profound; qualities formalized in his more polished fiction, here delivered in fragments, like little snapshots of the author's creative process. The material is a mix of journal entries, story sketches, plot ideas, dreams, aphorisms, and other miscellania. Some portions are quite complete; crystallized like prose poems. Other bits are cryptic, private, and like much of Kafka's work, signposts of an

Parts of it were brilliant, some others not so.. It was after all just a collection of unfinished thoughts. I'd likely leave recommendations to Kafka fans.