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https:...Read Max Brod's postscript to The Trial<br />https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2019/09/18/max-brod-postscript-the-trial/Books & Bootshttps://astrofella.wordpress.com/2019/09/18/max-brod-postscript-the-trial/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-9714838080543231312018-08-24T13:18:08.740+10:002018-08-24T13:18:08.740+10:00Benjamin
I find this a sad story. When Eva Hoffe ...Benjamin<br /><br />I find this a sad story. When Eva Hoffe died in Tel Aviv in Aug 2018, this elderly lady assumed that a family will was sacrosanct. She assumed that her beloved mother Esther left the precious Brod estate to Eva, and that Eva would in turn bequeath the estate to the institution of her choice - the German Literature Archive. She died in misery :(<br /><br />Clearly Kafka would have destroyed all the material, had he had the opportunity. So it was totally due to the heroic Brod and his two trusted women that the estate survived. A miracle in our time.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-50658411733614440732018-08-23T15:08:26.774+10:002018-08-23T15:08:26.774+10:00Kafka’s friend, editor and champion Max Brod rescu...Kafka’s friend, editor and champion Max Brod rescued the papers from Prague and brought them to Palestine in 1939, where he gave them to his secretary Esther Hoffe, Eva’s mother.<br /><br />From the outset, the contest pitted Eva’s private property rights against the public interests of two countries obsessed with overcoming the traumas of the past: Did the literary estate belong to the National Library of Israel? Or would it be best housed at the German Literature Archive in Marbach, Germany? Does Kafka’s beguiling writing belong to German literature or to the state that regards itself as the representative of Jews everywhere? <br /><br />The hearing held in June 2016. Six weeks later the Supreme Court rendered its unappealable verdict. A panel of three judges unanimously upheld the lower courts’ decisions and ruled that Eva must hand over the entire Brod estate, including Kafka’s papers, to the National Library, in return for which she would receive not a single shekel of compensation.<br /><br />Normally, a will allows the heir to understand her place in the generational order of things. Eva insisted that the disputed papers connected her as much with Brod as to her mother.<br /><br />Benjamin BalintB Balinthttps://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/269020/the-trial-of-kafkas-last-heiress?utm_source=tabletmagazinelist&utm_campaign=56419bfef8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_22_01_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c308bf8edb-56419bfef8-207680853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-71432485317809336532018-01-02T10:22:29.587+11:002018-01-02T10:22:29.587+11:00bazza
agree. There was/is a melancholy element in...bazza<br /><br />agree. There was/is a melancholy element in 18 year olds that Bob Dylan tapped right into. Ditto Leonard Cohen. Now I recognise that both of those men had depressive illnesses of their own to deal with, and perhaps that was what late teenagers were responding to. <br /><br />But I think Kafka was very different. His depressive illness was not seductive to late teenagers.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-11474323540907135362018-01-02T02:22:19.553+11:002018-01-02T02:22:19.553+11:00I read Kafka in my late teens. That was probably t...I read Kafka in my late teens. That was probably too early but I did get some pleasure from reading The Trial and Metamorphoses. I was getting into Bob Dylan at the time and they seemed to compliment each other. I don't think that now!<br /><b><a href="http://todiscoverice.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow"> CLICK HERE for Bazza’s novaturient Blog ‘To Discover Ice’</a></b>bazzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14794010156639774028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-13069807392599849032017-12-31T15:08:16.876+11:002017-12-31T15:08:16.876+11:00Deb
Brod fell in love with Elsa Taussig in Prague...Deb<br /><br />Brod fell in love with Elsa Taussig in Prague. At the same time, Kafka was a frequent guest in Brod's parents' house where Kafka met Felice Bauer, cousin of Brod's brother-in-law. So Brod and Elsa's relationship ended in a marriage, while Kafka and Felice's two engagements did not.<br /><br />Brod and Taussig got married in Prague in 1913 and fled to Palestine together in 1939. Alas Elsa died in Tel Aviv in 1942.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-70934585591357627022017-12-31T14:36:58.481+11:002017-12-31T14:36:58.481+11:00Parnassus
When I first tried to read Kafka, I was...Parnassus<br /><br />When I first tried to read Kafka, I was too young (20), too diverted (by a handsome boyfriend) and too inexperienced in real life situations to make sense of The Trial. In fact the story left me feeling hopeless and helpless.<br /><br />You will be more experienced in the real world and will appreciate Kafka far more than I did, whether you enjoy his writing or not.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-16076783636933082022017-12-31T11:18:58.657+11:002017-12-31T11:18:58.657+11:00Did Brod have a happier love life than Kafka?Did Brod have a happier love life than Kafka?Debnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-90041823726891835312017-12-31T03:12:42.286+11:002017-12-31T03:12:42.286+11:00Hello Hels, Your timing is perfect. I am planning...Hello Hels, Your timing is perfect. I am planning to read/reread Kafka this winter, and this background will help make sense of the source of his surreal situations. The various machinations with his literary estate as well as other elements of his life go to prove once again the old saw about truth being stranger than fiction.<br />--JimParnassushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08958901307538141468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-25123276203059365282017-12-30T21:22:16.376+11:002017-12-30T21:22:16.376+11:00Andrew
Kafkaesque means oppressive, surreal and n...Andrew<br /><br />Kafkaesque means oppressive, surreal and nightmarish qualities that couldn't be more ridiculous if they were planned to be nightmarish. Instead of saying "The irony of a Kafka estate being blocked for 39 years was not lost on Kafka reader", I could have said "the 39 year cock-up on the estate was utterly Kafkaesque".<br /><br />Franz Kafka's own literature revolved around individuals who were lonely, perplexed, threatened by anonymous forces or trapped within faceless systems.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-21388484891760400112017-12-30T18:40:33.796+11:002017-12-30T18:40:33.796+11:00I've never understood what a Kafkaesque situat...I've never understood what a Kafkaesque situation is. I will look it up one day. So many talented people have such tragic lives. Interesting to learn about Germans attacking Jewish places right back in 1897, and then retaliatory attacks by Czechs. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-61885682615912920132017-12-30T17:41:35.079+11:002017-12-30T17:41:35.079+11:00Joseph
Well done! There is an interesting page fo...Joseph<br /><br />Well done! There is an interesting page for the Czech Republic capital, helping fans follow in Franz Kafka's path from his birthplace to his gravesite. People can visit the family home, his office at the Worker’s Accident Insurance Company, the Old-New Synagogue, his sister's house in the Castle District, Café Louvre, Hotel Erzherzog Stefan and The Kafka Museum etc. <br /><br />http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20120828-mini-guide-to-kafkas-pragueHelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-90410368901562004042017-12-30T16:59:11.865+11:002017-12-30T16:59:11.865+11:00I took my mother back to Prague decades after leav...I took my mother back to Prague decades after leaving Europe and still managed to find some of Kafka's favourite hangouts. The centre of Prague must have been quite a Bohemian literary meeting place in his day, and boozy.Josephnoreply@blogger.com