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Kafka's last trial : the strange case of a literary legacy

Balint, Benjamin, 1976-2019
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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 20th 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.
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Imprint:
London : Picador, 2019.
Collation:
280 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2018.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781509836734 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
833.912
Language:
English
BRN:
1145571
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