Kafka's last trial : the case of a literary legacy
Balint, Benjamin, 1976-2018
Book
When Franz Kafka died in 1924, his loyal champion Max Brod could not bring himself to fulfil his friend's last instruction: to burn his remaining manuscripts. Instead, Brod devoted the rest of his life to editing, publishing and canonizing Kafka's work. By betraying his friend's last wish, Brod twice rescued his legacy - first from physical destruction, and then from obscurity. But that betrayal was also eventually to lead to an international legal battle: as a writer in German, should Kafka's papers come to rest in Germany, where his three sisters died as victims of the Holocaust? Or, as a Jewish writer, should his work be considered as a cultural inheritance of Israel, a state that did not exist at the time of his death?
Main title:
Kafka's last trial : the case of a literary legacy / Benjamin Balint.
Author:
Balint, Benjamin, 1976-, author
Imprint:
London : Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, 2018.©2018
Collation:
279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-266) and index.
ISBN:
9781509836727 (paperback)
Dewey class:
343.5694053
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
351026