Kafka's Last Trial

Benjamin Balint

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Author
Benjamin Balint
Publish Date
2019-10-08
Subtitle
The Case of a Literary Legacy
Book Type
Paperback
Number of Pages
288
Publisher Name
W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-10
0393357384
ISBN-13
9780393357387
citemno
273603
Edition
Reprint
SKU
9780393357387

Description

Winner of the 2020 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature

"Dramatic and illuminating…[R]aises momentous questions about nationality, religion, literature, and even the Holocaust." ―Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic
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.