Jerusalem :: Israel
| 3 months ago
When Mr. Brod fled to Tel Aviv from Prague on the last train out in 1939 as the Nazis rolled in, he had with him a suitcase full of Kafka’s documents. Here, he took up with his secretary, and when he died in 1968, he bequeathed to her the remaining Kafka...
Tags: Franz Kafka
London :: United Kingdom
| 3 months ago
The German-speaking world of Kafka scholars hit out yesterday over a British academic's claims that the writer had a penchant for hard porn. James Hawes, a Kafka expert and novelist, claims in his book Excavating Kafka, published in Britain yesterday,...
Tags: German Kafka, Franz Kafka
Tel Aviv :: Israel
| 4 months ago
The papers have been gathering dust in the home of the former secretary of Kafka's literary executor, Max Brod. Since his death in 1968, they've been kept by Esther Hoffe, who right up until her recent death at the age of 101 doggedly refused to release...
Tags: Hidden Kafka, Franz Kafka, Tel Aviv, Max Brodï
Tel Aviv :: Israel
| 4 months ago
Previously unseen documents, postcards, sketches and personal belongings of the Czech-Jewish writer, who wrote in German, have been gathering dust in the home of Esther Hoffe, the former secretary of Kafka's friend and executor Max Brod since his death...
Tags: Franz Kafka
