This English translation of the four diaries that Klee kept from his nineteenth to his fortieth year provides a miraculous reflection of the individual world of one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. The content of these intimate diaries, which were not originally intended for publication, is extremely varied: his recollections of his childhood in Switzerland; his relations with his family and such friends as Kandinsky, Marc, and Маске; his observations on nature and people;...