Can Anyone Own Kafka?

Tel Aviv Review

English - May 27, 2019 05:00 - 40 minutes - 28.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 141 ratings
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Israel claims it owns his papers, but so does a German archive and an old lady on Spinoza Street in Tel Aviv. Nothing is more Kafka-esque than the story of his papers, chronicled in Benjamin Balint's Kafka’s Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy.

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