A bright work

Kafka has maintained complex relationships - and rich psychoanalytical references; hence his interest Freud- with his family. He lived almost to the end with his parents until he met Dora Diamant who led in Berlin and Vienna. Growing up in the shadow of a father he perceived as a tyrant and a loving mother but subject to her husband, Kafka has nevertheless kept / maintained as correspondence with his relatives. His two older sisters, it emits a very critical judgment and without affect. However, his sister is Ottla for his greatest comfort and a rich correspondence is available to testify (see Letters to Ottla).

In this small beloved sister in question in this beautiful book that tells the tragic destiny of a brave woman, full of convictions and free, both in his head and in his actions. After marrying a non-Jew, she observes with dismay the inexorable rise of Nazism and a time to escape discriminatory laws Nuremberg. But Ottla, which carries the constant remembrance of her brother and who has not forgotten the despair that inhabited, it is important to fight and to choose his life to the end. Like Janus Korczak in Poland, one discovers Ottla last trip to the extermination camps, with the children and she accompanied her beloved, these pure and innocent souls which recalled those she would have loved to have ... Kafka has not experienced Nazism, but in his visionary work, its absurd denunciation of totalitarianism was referring to this bleak future that has drawn a decade and a half later. The whole family Kafka died in the camps.

The writing is fluid and compelling and at times, one is bound by fierce emotion, almost intimate and disturbing. One has the impression of living life to Ottla Kafka, his questions, doubts, struggles and fears ... Because Ottla, through his life engaged and action, embodied the absurdity and madness human destruction told in all the work of Kafka ...