Journals

   Denníkové zápisky a kresby Kurta Cobaina...

"Don't read my diary when I'm gone
OK, I'm going to work now. When you wake up this morning, please read my diary. Look through my things, and figure me out.”

Kurt Cobain


From the late 1980s until his death in 1994, Kurt Cobain kept a record of his innermost thoughts about his life and career in a series of dime-store notebooks. Brimming with lyrics, drawings, writings, lists of favorite songs, production notes, and letters to fellow musicians, friends, and family members, more than twenty of these notebooks survived the tumultuous events of Cobain’s life. Safeguarded since his death, they have not been seen by the public until now. The most remarkable excerpts from these notebooks have been gathered together in Kurt Cobain’s Journals. Presented in full-color facsimile format, they reveal Cobain’s uncensored views about fame, Nirvana, his public image, and his place in music history. They include new disclosures about his health problems and drug use, and blunt assessments of the artists he respected and of those in the media he despised. Cobain shares his deepest and most private thoughts about his sex life and his politics, his unabashed love for his wife and daughter, his bitter critiques of the music business and right-wing politics, and his doubts about his own creativity and ambition. Together, these journal entries create an extraordinary portrayal of the personal and professional evolution of the most compelling musician of his time, and of a distinctive era in American popular culture.