Kafka's last love : the mystery of Dora Diamant / Kathi Diamant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Diamant, Kathi.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diamant, Dora, 1902-1952.

Diamant, Dora.

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924--Relations with women.

Kafka, Franz.

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924.

Relations with women.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiv, 402 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Books, [2003]

Summary:

In this gripping literary detective story, Kathi Diamant brings to light the amazing woman who captured Franz Kafka's heart and kept his literary flame alive for decades. 16-page insert.

Contents:

1 The Threshold of Happiness 1

2 A Dark Creature from the East 15

3 A Free Life in Berlin 32

4 The Idyll in Berlin 48

5 The Burrow 63

6 The Killing Winter 75

7 The Most Fearful Day of Disaster 90

8 The Best of Beginnings 101

9 Funeral in Prague 121

10 In Memoriam 128

11 Life After Kafka 135

12 Between Two Worlds 143

13 The Nature Theater of Oklahoma 150

14 Description of a Struggle 165

15 Exodus from Berlin 180

16 The Workers Paradise 193

17 The Great Escape 211

18 The Isle of Man 222

19 Friends of Yiddish 234

20 Something Indestructible Within 250

21 The Promised Land 265

22 A Memory Come Alive 282

23 "Mach Was Du Kannst" 303

24 Kafka's Daughter 317

25 A Redwood Grows in Hampstead 332.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-393) and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0465015506

OCLC:

51264713