http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2008/09/franz_kafkas_la.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:31:00 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2008/09/franz_kafkas_la.html/comment-page-1#comment-47573 Lior Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:18:11 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2008/09/franz-kafkas-last-wishes-and-the-kafka-myths.html#comment-47573 Dan - Everything you say here is sensible and fair-minded. As you know, some of these points were widely understood before Hawes's book. Let me just add two points that make things more complex. First, we know that Kafka DID destroy the works he had access to while he was dying in a sanitarium. This suggests (but does not prove) a seriousness of purpose in his letters to Brod. Second, Brod admitted - in the Forward to the Trial, I think - that because of the quality of the works, he would not have destroyed Kafka's work even if he was certain that Kafka wanted them destroyed. Dan – Everything you say here is sensible and fair-minded. As you know, some of these points were widely understood before Hawes’s book. Let me just add two points that make things more complex. First, we know that Kafka DID destroy the works he had access to while he was dying in a sanitarium. This suggests (but does not prove) a seriousness of purpose in his letters to Brod. Second, Brod admitted – in the Forward to the Trial, I think – that because of the quality of the works, he would not have destroyed Kafka’s work even if he was certain that Kafka wanted them destroyed.

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