Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was a famous Austrian writer, most of whose works were published after the author's death. His novels, The Castle, The Trial, and America, were published by Folio. The loneliness and alienation the writer felt in his life may have led him to write a diary. Kafka began it in 1910 and led it, sometimes with long breaks, until 1923. His diary entries, made by Franz Kafka in 1913-1923, contain reflections on suicide and misunderstandings on the part of relatives and friends; about a hateful, tedious service that provides a livelihood and at the same time depletes it; about the beginning of the First World War and about general mobilization. Also in his diary, Kafka writes down his literary ideas and the beginnings of stories that come to his mind, observations in which there is a clear longing for the defeat of Austria and a black abyss of despair of a very lonely man.
