Kafka's Last Trial: The Strange Case of a Literary Legacy

AuthorBenjamin Balint
Rating
Price1495

'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 TimesWhen Franz Kafka died in 1924, his friend Max Brod could not bring himself to fulfil the writerâ€™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 Kafkaâ€™s work. By betraying his last wish, Brod twice rescued his legacy â€“ first from physical destruction, and then from obscurity.In Kafkaâ€™s Last Trial, Benjamin Balint offers a gripping account of the contest for ownership that followed, ending in Israeli courts with a controversial trial â€“ brimming with legal, ethical, and political dilemmas â€“ that would determine the fate of Kafkaâ€™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.

Publisher Picador
Publication Date 22/08/2019
Number of Pages 304
Binding Paper Back
ISBN 9781509836734
Category Fiction , Non Fiction , Biographics , Memoirs

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