Title: For all those interested in the Diary form
Product review: I agree with the Amazon reviewer above who suggests that this book would have been much better in ' encyclopediac' rather than narrative form. There are too just too many diarists mentioned and the discussion of them goes from one to the other too rapidly. Mallon breaks his diarists into seven categories, chroniclers, travelers, pilgrims, creators, apologists, confessors, prisoners.The old rule seemed to apply here, and the less I knew about the diarist the more Mallon 's work seemed significant. But for those whose work I do somehow know , and I think here of the example of Kafka , Mallon's treatment seemed to me hasty, and slight. This suggests that another problem of doing the work the way Mallon did is distinguishing well enough between diarists of greater and lesser significance.This book is highly recommended for all those who take interest in the Diary form, for I know of nothing else like it.
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