Benjamin Balint

Kafka's Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the 2020 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature

"Dramatic and illuminating...[R]aises momentous questions about nationality, religion, literature, and even the Holocaust." Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic

When Franz Kafka died in 1924, his loyal friend Max Brod could not bring himself to fulfill Kafka's last instruction: to burn his remaining manuscripts. Instead, Brod devoted his life to championing Kafka's 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 Kafka's 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 Kafka's manuscripts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781324001324
• Artikelnr.: 59592803

Autorenporträt

Benjamin Balint is the author of Bruno Schulz and Kafka's Last Trial, awarded the 2020 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, and is coauthor of Jerusalem: City of the Book. A library fellow at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem, he regularly writes on culture for The Wall Street Journal, the Jewish Review of Books, and other publications.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter - 1: The Last Appeal Chapter - 2:
Fanatical Veneration
: The First to Fall under Kafkäs Spell Chapter - 3: The First Trial Chapter - 4: Flirting with the Promised Land Chapter - 5: First and Second Judgments Chapter - 6: Last Son of the Diaspora: Kafkäs Jewish Afterlife Chapter - 7: The Last Ingathering: Kafka in Israel Chapter - 8: Kafkäs Last Wish, Brod
s First Betrayal Chapter - 9: Kafkäs Creator Chapter - 10: The Last Train: From Prague to Palestine Chapter - 11: The Last Tightrope Dancer: Kafka in Germany Chapter - 12: Laurel & Hardy Chapter - 13: Brod
s Last Love Chapter - 14: The Last Heiress: Selling Kafka Chapter - 15: The Last Heiress: Selling Kafka

Rezensionen

A literary battle that became Kafkaesque . . . remarkable . . . I warmly recommend this deeply absorbing book. Daily Telegraph