The Blue Octavo Notebooks

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The Blue Octavo Notebooks is the name given to a series of eight notebooks written by Franz Kafka from late 1917 until June 1919. When Max brod, Kafka's literary executor, published the diaries in 1948 he decided to omit these notebooks as he considered their contents more philosophical and literary than the regular quarto-sized notebooks Kafka used as diaries. The Octavo notebooks were later included in a volume of fragments and uncollected writings published in 1953. The notebooks first appeared in English in Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings (Schocken Books, 1954).

The Blue Octavo Notebooks were published in a single volume edition in 1991 by Exact Change. ISBN 1-878972-04-9