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1 online resource (1 audio file (6hr., 45 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Greg Rizzo. |
| Summary |
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. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
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Brod, Max, 1884-1968 -- Estate.
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Sifriyah ha-leʼumit (Israel) -- Trials, litigation, etc.
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Deutsches Literaturarchiv (Germany) -- Trials, litigation, etc.
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Inheritance and succession -- Israel.
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Rizzo, Greg.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781974913558 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1974913554 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12201526 |
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