The strange tale of Franz Kafka, the lost doll and the little girl
BENJAMIN VAN BLANCKE A story about a lost doll and a little girl could join Franz Kafka's (1883-1924) three other unfinished masterpieces, Amerika, The Trial, and The Castle, published after his death, if its existence is proven true. But Kafka never referenced such a work in the vast collection of diaries, notebooks, correspondence and manuscripts he left behind, an unparalleled record of a genius cut short by tuberculosis. Still, the idea of this story has recently inspired authors like Fabrice Colin with La Poupée de Kafka ("Kafka's Doll," 2016), or Larissa Theule and Rebecca Green with Kafka and the Doll (2023).
- ▪BENJAMIN VAN BLANCKE A story about a lost doll and a little girl could join Franz Kafka's (1883-1924) three other unfinished masterpieces, Amerika, The Trial, and The Castle, published after his death, if its existence is proven true.
- ▪But Kafka never referenced such a work in the vast collection of diaries, notebooks, correspondence and manuscripts he left behind, an unparalleled record of a genius cut short by tuberculosis.
- ▪Still, the idea of this story has recently inspired authors like Fabrice Colin with La Poupée de Kafka ("Kafka's Doll," 2016), or Larissa Theule and Rebecca Green with Kafka and the Doll (2023).
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BENJAMIN VAN BLANCKE A story about a lost doll and a little girl could join Franz Kafka's (1883-1924) three other unfinished masterpieces, Amerika, The Trial, and The Castle, published after his death, if its existence is proven true. But Kafka never referenced such a work in the vast collection of diaries, notebooks, correspondence and manuscripts he left behind, an unparalleled record of a genius cut short by tuberculosis. Still, the idea of this story has recently inspired authors like Fabrice Colin with La Poupée de Kafka ("Kafka's Doll," 2016), or Larissa Theule and Rebecca Green with Kafka and the Doll (2023). Though ghostly, this novel remains a tantalizing challenge for Kafka scholars and enthusiasts, who have not lost hope of one day unearthing it.
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