Kafka's Last Trial (eBook)

The Case of a Literary Legacy

Benjamin Balint (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
288 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-1-324-00132-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.9.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: Amerika • Courtroom • Eva Hoffe • Franz Kafka • Israeli Supreme Court • Jewish Identity • kafkaesque • literary executor • Manuscript • Max Brod • metamorphosis • national library of israel • penal colony • Prague • sami rohr prize finalist • sami rohr prize winner • tel aviv family court • the castle • the trial
• ISBN-10: 1-324-00132-1 / 1324001321
• ISBN-13: 978-1-324-00132-4 / 9781324001324