Kafka's last trial : the case of a literary legacy / Benjamin Balint.
Kafka's last trial : the case of a literary legacy / Benjamin Balint.
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Publisher
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2018]
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G 2019/1500
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Language
English
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Physical content
279 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
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 betra...
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Publisher
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2018]
Edition
First edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2018]
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Summary
"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 But when the moment arrived in 1924, Brod could not bring himself to burn the unpublished works of the man he considered a literary genius- even a saint.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...
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Kafka's last trial : the case of a literary legacy / Benjamin Balint.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-266) and index.
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G 2019/1500
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74VKVBPgMobg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVBPgMobg
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ISBN
1324001313 hardcover
9781324001317 hardcover
DDC
343.5694053
MMS ID
991024237614802626
