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Title: The Blue Octavo Notebooks by Franz Kafka, Max Brod, Ernst Kaiser, Eithne Wilkins ISBN: 1-878972-04-9 Publisher: Exact Change Pub. Date: February, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Indispensable
Comment: Definitely not the first Kafka text one should select--but arguably the second or third (behind The Stories and The Trial.) This collection represents the closest Kafka came to helping the reader unlock the impossibilities of interpretation in his fiction. For this reason alone it's worth a look, though there are many wonderful and hilarious moments that rank with the best of K's work.
And to the gentleman from Ontario (review, Oct. 18/99) who fretted over the color of the volume in question (and the publisher's good faith): you haven't been reading your Kafka. On page 35 you'll find the following: "There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie." This volume's (non) color is Kafkaesque in the best sense of the term. EXACT CHANGE should be congratulated on their superior understanding of a masterful writer!
Rating: 5
Summary: Not Everyone Can See the Truth, But He Can Be It
Comment: In the last year I have fallen in love with Franz Kafka's writings, starting with "The Trial." His works are the most truthful, soul-searching, endless, funny, and haunting tales ever written. I bought "The Blue Octavo Notebooks" not knowing what to expect. Were these to be second-rate scribblings published only to profit off Kafka's name? Not at all. These journals are as brilliant, if not better, than Kafka's stories. They reveal a complex man who was constantly challenging himself, trying to find the meaning of art, goodness, evil, truth, human nature, the eternal, and life. The entries, many of them only one or two lines, are deep meditations that allow the reader to probe into Kafka's, and the reader's, mind. Even the unfinished story fragments are nuggets of pure genius. The notebooks are intensely mystical, but frighteningly real -- like everything else in the world of Kafka's literature.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Minor Mistake
Comment: Kafka is certainly a good writer, I think. But there is only one thing I can't understand: This book is not Blue. I have no problem with its color, but I was expecting something blue which would fit nicely on my shelf. It is most probably a minor point. But I think we can say of it: How can we Believe anything in this Book if it lies to us about its Cover?
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Title: Diaries of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka ISBN: 0805209069 Publisher: Schocken Books Pub. Date: 30 October, 1988 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: LETTERS TO MILENA by Franz Kafka ISBN: 0805208852 Publisher: Schocken Books Pub. Date: 07 April, 1990 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Franz Kafka: A Biography by Max Brod, G. Humphreys Roberts, Richard Winston ISBN: 0306806703 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: September, 1995 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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Title: The Castle : A new translation based on the restored text by Franz Kafka ISBN: 0805211063 Publisher: Schocken Books Pub. Date: 15 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka ISBN: 0805210555 Publisher: Schocken Books Pub. Date: 14 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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