Nur elf Monate dauerte die vielleicht bedeutsamste Liebesgeschichte in der jüngeren Zeit. Dora Diamant, die lange Zeit Unbekannte an Kafkas Seite, verfügte über eine seltene Weite des Geistes. Als Rebellin ihrer ostjüdisch-orthodoxen Umgebung - sie floh vor dem strengen Vater in die Verheissung des "aufgeklärten" Westens - behielt und…
Based on original sources and interviews, including material from the Comintern and Gestapo archives and Dora's notebook, diary, and letters, this book illuminates the life of the literary "wife" of Franz Kafka, who like Vera Nabokov and Nora Joyce, was a remarkable woman in her own right.
In this gripping literary detective story, Kathi Diamant brings to light the amazing woman who captured Kafka's heart and kept his literary flame alive for decades. This was Dora Diamant, an independent spirit who fled her Polish Hasidic family to pursue her Zionist dreams, who persuaded Kafka to leave his parents and live with her in Berlin the year before he died. Based on original sources and interviews, including never-before-seen material from the Comintern and Gestapo archives and Dora's newly discovered diary, and letters, Kafka's Last Love illuminates the life of a literary "wife" who, like Véra Nabokov and Nora Joyce, is a remarkable woman in her own right.