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Kafka's Last Trial - The Strange Case of a Literary Legacy (Paperback)
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Kafka's Last Trial - The Strange Case of a Literary Legacy (Paperback)
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When Franz Kafka died in 1924, his loyal friend and champion Max
Brod could not bring himself to fulfil Kafka's last instruction: to
burn his remaining manuscripts. Instead, Brod devoted the rest of
his life to canonizing Kafka as the most prescient chronicler of
the twentieth century. By betraying Kafka'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 over Kafka's legacy: as a writer in
German, should his papers come to rest with those of the other
great German writers, in the country where his three sisters died
as victims of the Holocaust? Or, as Kafka was also a great Jewish
writer, should they be considered part of the cultural inheritance
of Israel, a state that did not exist at the time he died in 1924?
Alongside an acutely observed portrait of Kafka and Brod and the
influential group of writers and intellectuals known as the Prague
Circle, Kafka's Last Trial also provides a gripping account of the
recent series of Israeli court cases - cases that addressed
dilemmas legal, ethical, and political - that determined the final
fate of the manuscripts Brod had rescued when he fled from Prague
to Palestine in 1939. It tells of a wrenching escape from Nazi
invaders as the gates of Europe closed to Jews; of a love affair
between exiles stranded in Tel Aviv; and of two countries whose
national obsessions with overcoming the traumas of the past came to
a head in the Israeli courts. Ultimately, Benjamin Balint invites
us to question not only whether Kafka's legacy belongs by right to
the country of his language, that of his birth, or that of his
cultural and religious affinities - but also whether any nation
state can lay claim to writers who belong more naturally to the
international republic of letters.
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