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...DIARIES OF FRANZ KAFKA, 1910-1913 (345 pp.)-Edited by Max Brod-Schocken...
...when Franz Kafka was 26, he began keeping a diary. His personality was already obsessed by anxieties that he never shook off, and his writing was a presentiment of his later books. These diaries are more than a personal record; they seem to illuminate large areas of modern life and literature. Nothing quite like them has appeared in this century...
...power of conviction or mastery; we permit ourselves everywhere to be overwhelmed by the accidents of our massive ignorance and by the apparent subjectivity of our individual processes ... It is a world alive and moving but which does not understand itself . . . Shaw is as difficult as Joyce, Mann as Kafka, if you really look into them. The difficulties arise . . . partly because of the conditions of society . . . The audience is able to bring less to the work of art than under the conditions of the old culture, and the artist is required to bring more . . . almost the whole job of culture...
Mile--Won by Gurley (H); 2, Jackson (BU); 3, O'Donnell (HC); 4, Kafka (H). Time...
Mile run--Won by Malloy (BC); second, J. Anderson (H); third, F. Kafka (H). Time...