W. W. Norton & Company
Kafka's Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy
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Author: Benjamin Balint
ISBN: 9780393357387
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2019
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Condition: New
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Literary Criticism 1564762
Publisher Description:
When Franz Kafka died in 1924, his loyal friend Max Brod could not bring himself to fulfill Kafka's last instruction: to burn his remaining manuscripts. Instead, Brod devoted his life to championing Kafka's work, rescuing his legacy from both obscurity and physical destruction. Nearly a century later, an international legal battle erupted to determine which country could claim ownership: the Jewish state, where Kafka dreamed of living, or Germany, where Kafka's three sisters perished in the Holocaust? Benjamin Balint offers a gripping account of the controversial trial in Israeli courts--brimming with dilemmas legal, ethical, and political--that determined the fate of Kafka's manuscripts.
