Forgiving the Angel, Jay Cantor
Forgiving the Angel, Jay Cantor
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Forgiving the Angel
Four Stories for Franz Kafka

Author: Jay Cantor

Narrator: Qarie Marshall

Unabridged: 5 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/14/2014

Synopsis

In four stories that are a deft amalgam of fact and fiction, Jay Cantor captures the reverberations of Kafka's influences on the lives of some of the friends and lovers who survived him. Here is Kafka's last lover, Dora Diamant: their love opening out with both passion and pathos as he succumbs to tuberculosis...Max Brod, his friend and literary executor, struggling with Kafka's instructions to burn all his unpublished stories upon his death...the militant German Communist Lusk Lask, whom Dora - still enraptured by the memory of Kafka - marries and loses to a Soviet Gulag...a Nazi concentration camp prisoner whose survival will depend on her love for Milena Jesenska, who once survived on her own love for Kafka.

About Jay Cantor

Jay Cantor is the author of three novels, The Death of Che Guevara, Krazy Kat, and Great Neck, and two books of essays, The Space Between and On Giving Birth to One's Own Mother. A MacArthur Fellow, Cantor teaches at Tufts University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his wife and daughter.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Greg on May 21, 2014

In a fantasy, that may be true, or may be the work of the novelists imagination: Franz Kafka and Dora Diamant tell Max Brod about their dream of moving to Palestine and opening up a restaurant. Kafka would be the waiter while his girlfriend cooked the food. ”I suggest you order the soup,” Dora said.......more

Goodreads review by Scott on July 10, 2014

I reviewed this book recently on WKAR’s Current State. You can listen to my review here: [URL not allowed]-review-forg... You can also read my review below. - We all leave a legacy after we shuffle off this mortal coil, but its size and influence isn’t decided by us. That power is in the hands......more

Goodreads review by Jason on February 09, 2014

The four interrelated stories in "Forgiving the Angel" all center around people who Franz Kafka loved and their fate and the fates of the people around them in Stalin's Gulag and Hitler's concentration camps. The first story is about Kafka's dying and Max Brod's famous dilemma about how to handle Ka......more

Goodreads review by Lydia on January 05, 2014

My first exposure to Kafka's writing was in a class on the uncanny in Spring 2012. One of the stories assigned to us was The Metamorphosis and, as you can imagine (or perhaps have experienced), I was understandably both confused and perturbed at the same time. As I read that story, and the others as......more

Goodreads review by Tobias on November 01, 2017

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