Franz Kafka Does Not Want to Die

Suffering from illness, Franz Kafka asks his friend Robert Klopstock to give him another dose of morphine, pleading with him to kill him in order to end his suffering. At the same time, his companion Dora Diamant is at his bedside, and his beloved sister Ottla is waiting for news in Prague.

The novel tells about Kafka’s last years and his influence on three people close to him: Robert, Dora, and Ottla. The story takes us from sanatoriums to New York in the 1970s and also introduces other characters from the Kafka legend, such as Milena, Max Brod, and the city of Prague.

This study recreates the world as Kafka saw it, based on letters, diaries, and accounts of contemporaries.