Kafka's Last Trial The Case of a Literary Legacy
, by Balint, BenjaminNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780393357387 | 0393357384
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 10/8/2019
When Franz Kafka died in 1924, his loyal friend Max Brod could not bring himself to fulfill Kafka’s last 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 to determine which country could claim ownership: the Jewish state, where Kafka dreamed of living, or Germany, where Kafka’s three sisters perished in the Holocaust? Benjamin Balint offers a gripping account of the controversial trial in Israeli courts—brimming with dilemmas legal, ethical, and political—that determined the fate of Kafka’s manuscripts.