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  • Kafka's Last Trial

  • The Case of a Literary Legacy
  • By: Benjamin Balint
  • Narrated by: Greg Rizzo
  • Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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By: Benjamin Balint
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When Franz Kafka died in 1924, his loyal friend Max Brod could not bring himself to fulfill Kafka's last instruction: to burn his manuscripts. Instead, Brod devoted his life to championing Kafka's writing, rescuing his legacy from obscurity and physical destruction. Nearly a century later, an international legal battle erupted to determine which country could claim ownership of Kafka's work: Israel, where he dreamed of living, or Germany, where his 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 the oeuvre. Kafka's Last Trial is a brilliant biographical portrait of a literary genius as well as the story of two countries whose national obsession 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.
©2018 Benjamin Balint (P)2018 Dreamscape Media, LLC
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Kafka the Never Ending Story

An excellent and comprehensive work - it would be useful to have a PDF of the sources which I assume are included in the Print Format.

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