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Christopher Lightfoot Walker Reading Series

Franz Kafka’s Diaries

A reading by Josh Hamilton
With Ross Benjamin and Veronika Tuckerova

Mar 13, 2023


The penchant for depicting my dreamlike inner life has pushed everything else aside.

In a co-presentation between 92NY’s Unterberg Poetry Center and the Vaclav Havel Library Foundation, acclaimed actor Josh Hamilton (The Coast of Utopia, The Walking Dead) performs a dramatic reading of Franz Kafka’s Diaries, now published in a complete and newly translated edition by Ross Benjamin. Dating from 1909 to 1923, the handwritten diaries contain various kinds of writing: accounts of daily events, reflections, observations, literary sketches, drafts of letters, accounts of dreams and finished stories.

“Diaries stand at the threshold of life and literature,” wrote Benjamin. “In my translation, I seek to reveal Kafka’s genius not as something fully formed, embalmed and fit for a museum, but as that propensity for unsparing self-examination and open-ended literary experimentation that animated all his work.”

A conversation between Benjamin and scholar Veronika Tuckerova will follow the reading.


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