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)
9781324001324 (ISBN)

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Winner of the 2020 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature"e;Dramatic and illuminating[R]aises momentous questions about nationality, religion, literature, and even the Holocaust."e; Adam Kirsch, The AtlanticWhen Franz Kafka died in 1924, his loyal friend Max Brod could not bring himself to fulfill Kafkas last instruction: to burn his remaining manuscripts. Instead, Brod devoted his life to championing Kafkas 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 Kafkas three sisters perished in the Holocaust? Benjamin Balint offers a gripping account of the controversial trial in Israeli courtsbrimming with dilemmas legal, ethical, and politicalthat determined the fate of Kafkas manuscripts.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.9.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Urheberrecht
• 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-13: 9781324001324 / 9781324001324