How Long to Read Kafka's Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy

How Long Does it Take to Read Kafka's Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 57 minutes to read Kafka's Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy by Benjamin Balint

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The story of the international struggle to preserve Kafka’s literary legacy. Kafka’s Last Trial begins with Kafka’s last instruction to his closest friend, Max Brod: to destroy all his remaining papers upon his death. But when the moment arrived in 1924, Brod could not bring himself to burn the unpublished works of the man he considered a literary genius—even a saint. Instead, Brod devoted his life to championing Kafka’s writing, rescuing his legacy from obscurity and physical destruction. The story of Kafka’s posthumous life is itself Kafkaesque. By the time of Brod’s own death in Tel Aviv in 1968, Kafka’s major works had been published, transforming the once little-known writer into a pillar of literary modernism. Yet Brod left a wealth of still-unpublished papers to his secretary, who sold some, held on to the rest, and then passed the bulk of them on to her daughters, who in turn refused to release them. An international legal battle erupted to determine which country could claim ownership of Kafka’s work: Israel, where Kafka dreamed of living but never entered, or Germany, where Kafka’s three sisters perished in the Holocaust? Benjamin Balint offers a gripping account of the controversial trial in Israeli courts—brimming with dilemmas legal, ethical, and political—that determined the fate of Kafka’s manuscripts. Deeply informed, with sharply drawn portraits and a remarkable ability to evoke a time and place, Kafka’s Last Trial is at once a brilliant biographical portrait of a literary genius, and the story of two countries whose national obsessions with overcoming the traumas of the past came to a head in a hotly contested trial for the right to claim the literary legacy of one of our modern masters.

How long is Kafka's Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy?

Kafka's Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy by Benjamin Balint is 288 pages long, and a total of 74,304 words.

This makes it 97% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Kafka's Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 46 minutes to read Kafka's Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy aloud.

What Reading Level is Kafka's Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy?

Kafka's Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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