Thursday, January 19, 2012
fuckyeahmanuscripts: Franz Kafka’s manuscript from The Trial, 1925 Over at the New York Times, the lovely Elif Batuman has a great article about the battle over Kafka’s literary estate. I admit, I felt a painful clench of disappointment when the honorable Ms. Batuman referred to the legal battle over Kafka’s estate as “kafkaesque”—so easy, so pat, I sneered, faithless—but then: “It is unclear how much of Brod’s estate is still housed in the Spinoza Street apartment, which is currently inhabited by Eva Hoffe and between 40 and 100 cats.” It kind of is. 

fuckyeahmanuscripts:

Franz Kafka’s manuscript from The Trial, 1925

Over at the New York Times, the lovely Elif Batuman has a great article about the battle over Kafka’s literary estate.

I admit, I felt a painful clench of disappointment when the honorable Ms. Batuman referred to the legal battle over Kafka’s estate as “kafkaesque”—so easy, so pat, I sneered, faithless—but then:

“It is unclear how much of Brod’s estate is still housed in the Spinoza Street apartment, which is currently inhabited by Eva Hoffe and between 40 and 100 cats.”

It kind of is. 

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