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Kafka's Last Love: The Mystery of Dora Diamant
by Diamant, Kathi
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by previous owner.
- ISBN 10
- 0465015506
- ISBN 13
- 9780465015504
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Basic Books, 2003. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by previous owner.. xov, 402 p. Illustrations. Notes. Sources. Index. Here, for the first time, is the remarkable story of the woman who was by the side of literary giant Franz Kafka at the end of his life. 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. It 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. Although many credit (or blame) her for burning many of his papers, as he had requested, she also held onto many others-papers that the Gestapo confiscated and that have yet to be recovered. 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. Based on original sources and interviews, including never-before-seen material from the Comintern and Gestapo archives and Dora's newly discovered notebook, diary, and letters, Kafka's Last Love illuminates the life of a literary "wife" who, like Vra Nabokov and Nora Joyce, is a remarkable woman in her own right. The author was the director of the Kafka Project at San Diego State University.
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- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 65231
- Title
- Kafka's Last Love: The Mystery of Dora Diamant
- Author
- Diamant, Kathi
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by previous owner.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition. First printing [stated]
- ISBN 10
- 0465015506
- ISBN 13
- 9780465015504
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- Franz Kafka, Max Brod, Dora Diamant, Friedlaender, Franziska Lask, Ludwig Lask, Lichtenstern, Marthe Robert, Marianne Steiner, Avrom-Nokhem, Stencl, Franz Werfel, Felix, Weltsch
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