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ISBN
9781509836727
Publication Year
2018
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Book Title
Kafka's Last Trial: the Case of a Literary Legacy
Item Height
234mm
Author
Benjamin Balint
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Topic
Literature
Item Width
153mm
Item Weight
399g
Number of Pages
304 Pages

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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 also led to an international legal battle over which country could lay claim to Kafka's legacy: Germany, where Kafka's own sister perished in the Holocaust and where he would have suffered a similar fate had he remained, or Israel? At once a brilliant biographical portrait of Kafka and Brod and the influential group of writers and intellectuals known as the Prague Circle, Kafka's Last Trial offers a gripping account of the controversial trial in Israeli courts - brimming with dilemmas legal, ethical, and political - that determined the fate of the manuscripts Brod had rescued when he fled with Kafka's papers at the last possible moment from Prague to Palestine in 1939. It describes a wrenching escape from Nazi invaders as the gates of Europe closed; of a love affair between exiles stranded in Tel Aviv; and two countries whose national obsessions with overcoming the traumas of the past came to a head in a fascinating and hotly contested trial. Ultimately, Benjamin Balint invites us to question: who owns a literary legacy - the country of one's language and birth or of one's cultural and religious affinities - and what nation can claim a right to it.

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Publisher
Pan Macmillan
ISBN-13
9781509836727
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Book Title
Kafka's Last Trial: the Case of a Literary Legacy
Author
Benjamin Balint
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literature
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
304 Pages

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Item Height
234mm
Item Width
153mm
Item Weight
399g

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Benjamin Balint
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United Kingdom

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