by Michael Kumpfmüller · Albin Michel · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782226245199
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«La splendeur de la vie» is the novel by Michael Kumpfmüller, published by Albin Michel in paperback (304 pages, in French).
Franz Kafka meets Dora Diamant in Müritz in 1923; she becomes his last love. Despite his illness and the precariousness of inflation-era Berlin, they live together for eleven months, among small rooms, occasional jobs and nights of writing. Kumpfmüller reconstructs the relationship from diaries and letters, with Dora's lucid gaze.
Work originally published in German as «Die Herrlichkeit des Lebens» (2011), translated by Bernard Kreiss. It won the Jean-Monnet Prize for European literature (2013).
For those interested in the figure of Kafka and in historical fiction with a love story at its core.
Michael Kumpfmüller is a German writer and former journalist.
