Kafka`s Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy

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When Franz Kafka died in 1924, his loyal champion Max Brod could not bring himself to fulfil his friend`s last instruction: to burn his remaining manuscripts. Instead, Brod devoted the rest of his life to editing, publishing and canonizing Kafka`s work. By betraying his friend`s last wish, Brod twice rescued his legacy - first from physical destruction, and then from obscurity. But that betrayal was also eventually to lead to an international legal battle: as a writer in German, should Kafka`s p

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