Stories written, later collected in
Winter: Bothered by noise, K. moves to remote Alchemists' Lane, Prague.
1917 First half: 'The Hunter Gracchus' written.
Learning Hebrew.
Spring: 'The Great Wall of China' written.
July: Second engagement to Felice Bauer.
August: Begins coughing blood.
September 4: Diagnosis of tuberculosis. Moves to sister Ottla in Zurau.
September 12: Leave of absence from office.
November 10: Diary entries break off.
End of December: Breaking of second engagement to Felice Bauer.
Fall and winter: Aphorisms written (octavo notebooks).
1918 January to June: Zurau. Reading Kierkegaard.
Spring: Aphorisms continued.
Prague, Turnau.
November: Schelesen. Meets Julie Wohryzek, daughter of a synagogue custodian. A project for 'The Society of Poor Workers,' an ascetic society.
1919 January 10: Diary entries are resumed.
Schelesen; Spring: Again in Prague.
[Spring: Felice Bauer married.]
Spring: Engagement to Julie Wohryzek (broken November 1919).
May: Publication of
Fall: Publication of
November: 'Letter to His Father' written.
Winter: 'He,' collection of aphorisms, written. Schelesen, with Max Brod.
1920 January 1920 to October 15, 1921: Gap in diaries.
Sick leave from Workers' Accident Insurance Institute. Meran.
End of March: Meets Gustav Janouch. Meran.
Meets Milena Jesenska-Pollak, Czech writer (Vienna). Correspondence.
Summer and fall: Prague. Writing stories.
December: Tatra Mountains (Matliary). Meets Robert Klopstock.
1921 October 15: Note in diary that K. had given all his diaries to Milena.
[Kafka's son by Crete Bloch dies in Munich.]
Until September: Tatra Mountains sanatorium; then Prague; Milena.
1921-24 Stories written, collected in
1922 January to September:
February: Prague.
Spring: 'A Hunger Artist' written.
May: Last meeting with Milena.
End of June to September: In Plana on the Luschnitz with sister Ottla. Prague.
Summer: 'Investigations of a Dog' written.
1923 Prague.
July: In Muritz (with sister Elli); in a vacation camp of the Berlin Jewish People's Home, meets Dora Dymant [Diamant].
Prague, Schelesen (Ottla).
End of September: With Dora Dymant in Berlin-Steglitz; later moves, with Dora, to Grunewaldstrasse.
Attends lectures at the Berlin Academy (Hochschule) for Jewish Studies.
Winter: 'The Burrow' written.
K. and Dora move to Berlin-Zehlendorf.
1924 Spring: 'Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk' written.
Brought as a patient from Berlin to Prague.
April 10: To Wiener Wald Sanatorium, Professor Hajek's clinic in Vienna; then sanatorium in Kierling, near Vienna (with Dora Dymant and Robert Klopstock).
