Franz Kafka does not want to die

Author's name: Laurent Seksyk Publisher: Al-Rafidain for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2025 Literary classification: Novel Brief about the book: "Kill me, or you are a murderer." These are the last words of Franz Kafka as he begs for another dose of morphine from his friend, medical student Robert Clobstoc. Next to his bed, his wife Dora Diamant watches him. While waiting for Outla, the dear sister, in Prague to get news. This novel tells the story of the three main characters in Kafka's life and the intertwining of their fates, with a gripping language and plot throughout its chapters. Robert will become a prominent surgeon in New York specializing in tuberculosis. Dora will survive Nazi and Stalinist persecution, carrying Kafka's memory to us. Outla will be accompanied by a group of Polish Jewish children she volunteered to help, led by the Nazis to a tragic fate in Auschwitz on the sixtieth anniversary of her brother's birth. These testimonies allow forming other images of Kafka as a human, thinker, and visionary, bringing the reader closer to Kafka's visions and their deep meanings through the eyes of his closest ones in the most difficult moments of his life. Seksyk, the author, says: "Everything in this novel is real. I relied on very precise and very rich documents. I embodied the characters as a novelist, and this is a great challenge. Kafka does not need me, nor does he need any other writer. The purpose of the novel is to present a new perspective and find a new view."