Kafka's Last Trial [Pan MacMillan] (9781509836727)

Код товара: 100040820

Биографии и мемуары: Kafka's Last Trial [Pan MacMillan]

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Производитель:: Pan Macmillan
Количество страниц: 304
Переплет: Мягкий
Размер: 153 x 234 x 21 мм
ISBN: 9781509836727
Автор: Benjamin Balint
Год издания: 2018
Издательство: Pan MacMillan
Язык: Английский

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A highly entertaining story of literary friendship, epic legal battles and cultural politics centred on one of the most enigmatic writers of the 20th century Financial Times

When Franz Kafka died in 1924, his friend Max Brod could not bring himself to fulfil the writers last instruction: to burn his remaining manuscripts. Instead, Brod took them with him to Palestine in 1939, and devoted the rest of his life to editing and canonizing Kafkas work. By betraying his last wish, Brod twice rescued his legacy - first from physical destruction, and then from obscurity.

In Kafkas Last Trial, Benjamin Balint offers a gripping account of the contest for ownership that followed, ending in Israeli courts with a controversial trial - brimming with legal, ethical, and political dilemmas - that would determine the fate of Kafkas manuscripts. This is at once a 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.