by Michael Kumpfmüller · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783462043266
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«Die Herrlichkeit des Lebens» is the novel by Michael Kumpfmüller published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch in paperback (237 pages, in German).
The novel recounts the encounter in 1923 at a Baltic seaside resort between Franz Kafka, ill with tuberculosis, and Dora Diamant, a 25-year-old cook. Despite hyperinflation, moves and family mistrust, they decide to live together in Berlin and share their final months until Kafka's death in June 1924.
Originally published in 2011, the novel was recognised with the Prix Jean-Monnet de littérature européenne du département de Charente in 2013 and was nominated for the Europese Literatuurprijs in 2014.
Aimed at readers of historical fiction and those interested in the figure of Franz Kafka and twentieth-century German literature.
Michael Kumpfmüller is a German writer and former journalist.
