Description
When Franz Kafka died in 1924, his loyal friend Max Brod could not bring himself to follow Kafka’s final instruction to burn his remaining manuscripts. Instead, Brod devoted his life to championing Kafka’s work, rescuing his legacy from both obscurity and physical destruction. Nearly a century later, an international legal battle erupted over which country could claim ownership: the Jewish state, where Kafka had dreamed of living, or Germany, where his three sisters perished in the Holocaust. Benjamin Balint offers a gripping account of the controversial trial in Israeli courts, filled with legal, ethical and political dilemmas, that determined the fate of Kafka’s manuscripts.
Information
Author: Balint Benjamin
Language: English
Publication date: November 12, 2019
Genres: English literature, Books, Foreign language books, Biographies and autobiographies in english, Non-fiction literature in english
Type: Paperback book
Pages: 280
ISBN/EAN: 9780393357387