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 courts-brimming with dilemmas legal, ethical, and political-that determined the fate of Kafka's manuscripts.
Über den Autor Benjamin Balint
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Benjamin Balint, geboren 1976 in den USA, lebt als Autor und Übersetzer aus dem Hebräischen (Ivrit) in Jerusalem. Als erster Jude lehrte er an Palästinas Al-Kuds-Universität. Seine Kritiken und Essays erscheinen in Die Zeit, The Wall Street Journal, Ha'aretz, The Weekly Standard, The New Yorker u. a. »Kafkas letzter Prozess« ist seine erste Buchveröffentlichung auf Deutsch. Zudem erschienen »Jerusalem: City of the Book« und zuletzt »Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History«.
