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"Kafka's Last Trial begins with Kafka's last instruction to his closest friend, Max Brod: to destroy all his remaining papers upon his death. But when the moment arrived in 1924, Brod could not bring himself to burn the unpublished works of the man he considered a literary genius- even a saint. Instead, Brod devoted his life to championing Kafka's writing, rescuing his legacy from obscurity and physical destruction. The story of Kafka's posthumous life is itself Kafkaesque. By the time of Brod's own death in Tel Aviv in 1968, Kafka's major works had been published, transforming the once little-known writer into a pillar of literary modernism. Yet Brod left a wealth of still-unpublished papers to his secretary, who sold some, held on to the rest, and then passed the bulk of them on to her daughters, who in turn refused to release them. An international legal battle erupted to determine which country could claim ownership of Kafka's work: Israel, where Kafka dreamed of living but never entered, 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. Deeply informed, with sharply drawn portraits and a remarkable ability to evoke a time and place, Kafka's Last Trial is at once a brilliant biographical portrait of a literary genius, and the story of two countries whose national obsessions with overcoming the traumas of the past came to a head in a hotly contested trial for the right to claim the literary legacy of one of our modern masters."--Publisher's description.… (más)
Reason Read: This was a moderator pick for the Jewish Book Club on GR. I chose to read it at the last minute of April going into May and it fits a TIOLI category for May. Read a biography of a favorite author. Well can Kafka being anyone's favorite author? He is dark and depressing, lonely and isolated but he also has had much influence and of course is a 1001 author with I think 3 books on the list; Metamorphosis, Amerika, The Trial. I have yet to read The Trial. This book also qualifies as a book about books. What I found most interesting is that this is the second book in a months time that touches on an author's literary legacy. Thomas Bernhard's Corrections has an unknown narrator assigned to be the executor of his friends literary legacy and the narrator contemplates the right of those that choose to take notes, etc and publish works after the author's death. In the fiction book the narrator simply records the notes as is rather than try to publish them in any sort of book. In the case of Kafka who clearly requested that his works be burned because he did not think they were good enough, his executor chose to ignore his friend's request and he published them. Many court battles resulted. This book discusses those battles over documents that were never to exist. I did not know these details, I don't think I knew that Kafka was Jewish and always thought of him as a German author. Israel claims the rights, Germany claims the rights, and Brod left them to his secretary and she left them to her daughters. Germany claims the documents as German and Kafka never stepped foot in Israel but he did study Hebrew and had an interest in Jewishness but it never appeared in any of his writing. He grew up in Prague, was Jewish, and wrote in flawless German. So who does "own the man who became an adjective? ( )
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Cour suprême israélienne, 1, rue Shaarei Mishpat, Jérusalem, 27 juin 2016
Un matin d’été à Jérusalem, Eva Hoffe, quatre-vingt-deux ans, assise, les mains crispées sur le banc en bois, attendait son tour dans un recoin de l’immense salle des pas perdus de la Cour suprême israélienne. [...]
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"Kafka's Last Trial begins with Kafka's last instruction to his closest friend, Max Brod: to destroy all his remaining papers upon his death. But when the moment arrived in 1924, Brod could not bring himself to burn the unpublished works of the man he considered a literary genius- even a saint. Instead, Brod devoted his life to championing Kafka's writing, rescuing his legacy from obscurity and physical destruction. The story of Kafka's posthumous life is itself Kafkaesque. By the time of Brod's own death in Tel Aviv in 1968, Kafka's major works had been published, transforming the once little-known writer into a pillar of literary modernism. Yet Brod left a wealth of still-unpublished papers to his secretary, who sold some, held on to the rest, and then passed the bulk of them on to her daughters, who in turn refused to release them. An international legal battle erupted to determine which country could claim ownership of Kafka's work: Israel, where Kafka dreamed of living but never entered, 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. Deeply informed, with sharply drawn portraits and a remarkable ability to evoke a time and place, Kafka's Last Trial is at once a brilliant biographical portrait of a literary genius, and the story of two countries whose national obsessions with overcoming the traumas of the past came to a head in a hotly contested trial for the right to claim the literary legacy of one of our modern masters."--Publisher's description.
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