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Heller contended in court that the Israeli National Library was Brod's first preference, saying he had evidence Brod wrote a later will bequeathing his literary estate directly to it.

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These two unfinished masterpieces of Kafka, are essential to our current view of him and most readers feel grateful for Brod's disobedience.

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These two unfinished masterpieces of Kafka, are essential to our current view of him and most readers feel grateful for Brod's disobedience.

Rodger Kamenetz: Kafka Manuscripts: The Fight Over Kafka Rodger Kamenetz 2010

Oded Hacohen, a lawyer for Eva Hoffe, said Brod's will gave the collection to her mother as a gift and gave her the right to bequeath it to the Israel National Museum or any institution of her choosing, in Israel or abroad, under whatever conditions she decides.

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He cited a 1974 Tel Aviv District Court ruling backing that interpretation and quoting Brod's will.

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Far harder to defend is Brod's subsequent decision to publish the correspondence, [4] the diaries, and the acutely personal Letter to My Father (though posthumous literary morality is a slippery thing: if what is found in a drawer is very bad, the shame of it outlives both reader and publisher; when it's as good as Letter to My Father, the world winks at it).

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It was Brod's opinion that Kafka's parents should gift him a lump sum "so that he could leave the office, go off to some cheap little place on the Riviera to create those works that God, using Franz's brain, wishes the world to have."

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For when it came to editing the novels, Brod's sympathy for the theological would seem to have guided his hand.

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The problem is not solely Brod's flat-footed interpretations, it's his interventions in the texts themselves.

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Begley, leaving God out of it, politely disagrees, finding Brod's wish probably misguided.

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