Kafkas sista vän intervjuad
Lite mer Kafka: Haaretz har intervjuat 106-åriga Alice Herz-Sommer i hennes hem i London. Hon är Franz Kafkas sista levande vän:
"Kafka was a slightly strange man," Sommer recalls. "He used to come to our house, sit and talk with my mother, mainly about his writing. He did not talk a lot, but rather loved quiet and nature. We frequently went on trips together. I remember that Kafka took us to a very nice place outside Prague. We sat on a bench and he told us stories. I remember the atmosphere and his unusual stories. He was an excellent writer, with a lovely style, the kind that you read effortlessly," she says, and then grows silent. "And now, hundreds of people all over the world research and write doctorates about him."Herz-Sommers öde är dock intressant i sig, och i intervjun berättar hon bl.a. om livet i koncentrationslägret i Theresienstadt, där hon gav pianokonserter för de andra fångarna, och om när hon bevistade den kända rättegången mot Adolf Eichmann:
"I don't hate the Germans," Sommer declares. "[What they did] was a terrible thing, but was Alexander the Great any better? Evil has always existed and always will. It is part of our life."
In 1962, she adds, she attended the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem: "I have to say that I had pity for him. I have pity for the entire German people. They are wonderful people, no worse than others."
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