2010年7月29日 星期四

New Franz Kafka papers discovered

Arts on the Air | 28.07.2010 | 16:30

More than 85 years after the death of famous Czech author Franz Kafka, new papers of his are being discovered. It is the result of a court case that has a plot worthy of the brilliant anxious writer himself.

Kafka penned some of the 20th century’s greatest novels and short-stories, centred on absurd nightmarish situations pitting a small man against a big brutal system, often in a courtroom.

Ten safety deposit boxes full of documents by Kafka and his friend and literary executor Max Brod are being opened on the orders of an Israeli court - -- four were opened in Switzerland last week, revealing illustrations and documents by Kafka -- with unconfirmed reports of a new short story, never before published, written in Kafka’s own hand.

Irris Makler reports from Jerusalem on the extraordinary personal story that kept these documents hidden for four decades.

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