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Title: Kafka in Love

Author: Jacqueline Raoul-Duval

Narrator: Chris Kayser

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-07-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Kafka was an attractive, slender, and elegant man - something of a dandy - who captivated his friends and knew how to charm women. He seemed to have had four important love affairs: Felice, Julie, Milena, and Dora. All of them lived far away, in Berlin or Vienna, and perhaps that's one of the reasons that he loved them: he chose long-distance relationships so he could have the pleasure of writing to them, without the burden of having to live with them. He was engaged to all four women, and four times he avoided marriage. At the end of each love affair, he threw himself into his writing and produced some of his most famous novels: Amerika, The Trial, and The Castle.

In this charming book, author Jacqueline Raoul-Duval follows the paper trail of Kafka's ardor. She uses his voice in her own writing, and a third of the book is pulled from Kafka's journals. It is the perfect introduction to this giant of world literature, and captures his life and romances in a style worthy of his own.

Members Reviews:

Love reading about writers "in love."

This is another unusual novel that is based on letters about the four major relationships with women in Kafka's relatively short life, before his death from tuberculosis. While this is certainly not "romance" in the mundane sense of the word, these relationships played a role in some of Kafka's greatest writing and is fascinating for that reason.

His was a life lived in unusual and fraught times, much of which is well represented in Raoul-Duval's novel. His relationship with his own Jewishness, with Zionism, with utopian and idealized notions about love and family, all simply fascinating.

This is an historically important work, an interesting work in terms of working the line between fiction and biography, which feels - as is so often the case with great fiction - as if it were "truer" than straight historical narrative biography could ever be!

A Magical Masterpiece

This is now one of my most beloved books and has changed my life. I am so grateful to the author for sharing such a gem with us, thank you. It is a true masterpiece.

I have edited this comment to say I am shocked by any negative comments regarding this book, I hope you don't miss the chance to experience such a lovely work of literary art.

A DUMB BOOK!

I was very disappointed in this book, it goes on and on and is very boring, there is no life to it!

Love is Strange

Some people know Franz Kafka through cultural osmosis rather than an intimate reading of his work. Before starting Kafka in Love, I knew that Kafka wrote passionate letters to a girlfriend named Milena, but I didn't know he also had a Felice, a Julie, and a Dora, and that he wrote to them too. I knew he was Jewish, a vegetarian, and an eccentric; I didn't know to what extent he carried his beliefs. I do now.

To say Kafka in Love is a unflinching portrait of a genius understates the breadth of Raoul-Duval's accomplished text. Part literary history and part fiction, Raoul-Duval hurtles into Kafka's mental gymnastics and the emotional suffering he caused for himself, his family, and the women he never married.

The longest section is devoted to Felice and it can serve as a precautionary tale. Give this book to a friend (or an enemy) you want to discourage from whirlwind romances or long-distance affairs.