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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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List price R280
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'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.
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