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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20030525
Author:Reviewed by Michael Hofmann

KAFKA'S LAST LOVE

The Mystery of Dora Diamant

By Kathi Diamant

Basic. 402 pp. $30

If you know anything much about Franz Kafka's life, you probably know the wonderfully improbable episode at the end of it when, desperately ill and, in the Australian idiom, "happy as a box of birds," he shacked up in Berlin with a 19-year-old Hasidic Jewish girl from Poland. This was the break from his parents and Prague that he had dreamed of all his adult life, and astonishingly -- in a most un-Kafka-like fashion -- it came to pass. It almost seems more a part of his death than of his life. Everything was ...

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