by Michael Kumpfmüller · J'ai lu · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782290078198
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«La splendeur de la vie» is Michael Kumpfmüller's novel about Kafka's last love, published by J'ai lu in paperback (317 pages, French).
In the summer of 1923, Franz Kafka, ill with tuberculosis, meets Dora Diamant, a twenty-five-year-old cook, on the Baltic coast. Drawing on the writer's diaries, letters and texts, Michael Kumpfmüller recreates the intense relationship they maintain until the end.
The work was published in German as «Die Herrlichkeit des Lebens» (2011); this French edition, translated by Bernard Kreiss, won the Prix Jean-Monnet de littérature européenne in 2013.
For readers of literary fiction and for those who want to approach the human figure of Franz Kafka through a love story.
Michael Kumpfmüller is a German writer and former journalist.
