Just one year after leaving this world, Franz Kafka met a little girl walking in Berlin’s Stegliz Park. Weeping intensely, he was inconsolable when this child was first seen by the author of The Process, The Castle, America and other unforgettable works. Wishing to interrupt this flow of tears, Kafka asked him if it had been lost. The child’s naive response shocked the man: he did not, he had lost the doll. And she started crying again. In an attempt to reassure the child, Kafka made up a strange story: the doll was not lost, he had gone on a trip and the child would immediately receive letters from him.