Kafka's Last Love: The Mystery Of Dora Diamant by Kathi Diamant

Kathi Diamant brings to light the amazing woman who captured Kafka's heart and kept his literary flame alive. It was Dora Diamant, an independent spirit who persuaded Kafka to leave his parents and live with her in Berlin the year before he died. Although many credit (or blame) her for burning many of his papers, at his request, she also held on to many others - papers that the Gestapo confiscated. Dora's life after Kafka - from her days as a struggling agitprop actress in Berlin to her sojourn in Moscow in the 1930s, from her wartime escape to Great Britain, to her first emotional visit to the new nation of Israel - offers a prism through which we can view the cultural and political history of twentieth-century Europe. Kafka's Last Love illuminates the life of a literary 'wife' who, like Vera Nabokov and Nora Joyce, was a remarkable woman in her own right. This 2004 Vintage Paperback is in good condition. Some tanning; remainder mark bottom text block.

ISBN: 9780099422181 SKU: 1576807 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.

SKU: 1576807
Location: Biography