'A highly entertaining story of literary friendship, epic legal battles
and cultural politics centred on one of the most enigmatic writers of
the 20th century' Financial Times When Franz Kafka died in 1924, his
friend Max Brod could not bring himself to fulfil the writer's last
instruction: to burn his remaining manuscripts. Instead, Brod took them
with him to Palestine in 1939, and devoted the rest of his life to
editing and canonizing Kafka's work. By betraying his last wish, Brod
twice rescued his legacy - first from physical destruction, and then
from obscurity.
In Kafka's Last Trial, Benjamin Balint offers a
gripping account of the contest for ownership that followed, ending in
Israeli courts with a controversial trial - brimming with legal,
ethical, and political dilemmas - that would determine the fate of
Kafka's manuscripts. This is at once a biographical portrait of a
literary genius, and the story of two countries whose national
obsessions with overcoming the traumas of the past came to a head in a
hotly contested trial for the right to claim the literary legacy of one
of our modern masters.
Kafka's Last Trial : The Strange Case of a Literary Legacy - Benjamin Balint
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