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100 1 Balint, Benjamin,|d1976-|eauthor.
245 10 Kafka's last trial :|bthe case of a literary legacy /
|cBenjamin Balint.
250 First edition.
264 1 New York :|bW.W. Norton & Company,|c[2018]
300 279 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-266) and
index.
505 0 The last appeal -- "Fanatical veneration": the first to
fall under Kafka's spell -- The first trial -- Flirting
with the promised land -- First and second judgments --
Last son of the diaspora: Kafka's Jewish afterlife -- The
last ingathering: Kafka in Israel -- Kafka's last wish,
Brod's first betrayal -- Kafka's creator -- The last train
: from Prague to Palestine -- The last tightrope dancer:
Kafka in Germany -- Laurel & Hardy -- Brod's last love --
The last heiress: selling Kafka -- The last judgment --
Epilogue.
520 "The story of the international struggle to preserve
Kafka’s literary legacy. 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himself to burn the unpublished works of the man he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Yet Brod left a wealth of still-unpublished papers to his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."--Amazon.
600 10 Kafka, Franz,|d1883-1924|xTrials, litigation, etc.
600 10 Brod, Max,|d1884-1968|xEstate.
600 17 Brod, Max,|d1884-1968.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00014191
600 17 Kafka, Franz,|d1883-1924.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00073986
610 20 Sifriyah ha-leʼumit (Israel)|xTrials, litigation, etc.
610 20 Deutsches Literaturarchiv (Marbach am Neckar, Germany)
|xTrials, litigation, etc.
610 27 Deutsches Literaturarchiv (Marbach am Neckar, Germany)
|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00550606
610 27 Sifriyah ha-leʼumit (Israel)|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01929070
650 0 Inheritance and succession|zIsrael.
650 7 Decedents' estates.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00888929
650 7 Inheritance and succession.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00973371
650 7 Trials.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01156290
650 7 LAW / General.|2bisacsh
651 7 Israel.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204236
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