The last
love of Franz Kafka Dora Dymant has been the alone partner of Franz Kafka. They are met in 1923, one year before his
death, on the beatch of the baltic. She has twenty years old. He has forty. Of one jewdish family, she flights the Poland for Berlin to the research of his independency. Touched by the tuberculosis since 1917, Kafka look for in the study of the hebrew and the yiddish theater the spiritual values of the East. They incarnate the two poles of the jewdish european communauty and choose Berlin, capitale of the modernity of XX century and of their aspiration for share their life. Under the eyes of Dora, we discover a Kafka intimacy, having one very important humanity and also a
great sens of justice, of humor, and a great talent of actor. “I am the wife of Franz Kafka who maintain after the death of writer, built his life arround of worth who he hand down to her. She became comedienne, adhere to Berlin to communist Parti, spouse in 1933, the marxist, Lutz Lask, she has a daughter, Marianne. “Bravery Mother”, refugee, stateless, always in flight, she foil the
trial of
europe Nazi, she is the protector of work of Kafka with Max Brod, near of Jean-Louis Barrault to Paris when he set in stage the “Trial” of the yiddish culture, to London, in the city of WhiteChapel. She testify of the Europe in distorderly : artist fightly the progroms, extermination of his own people, the Polish, stalinian purge, concentration camps where are prisoner the sister of Kafka. She defend with strong until his death in 1953 his love for Kafka and the literary. Kathi Diamant, Professor to the University of San Diego in California, has reconstituted piece by piece, this polyphonical biography, to part of archive came of all Europe, his meet altrought the world with all, friend of family, who can again speak of “Dora de Kafka”. Responible of
researchs on Franz Kafka, she continues his researchs for refind the letters of Kafka and of Dora Dymant, confiscate during the war by the Gestapo.
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