![]() ![]() ![]() We do know, however, that Brod disregarded his friend's request and devoted great energy to making sure that all of Kafka's works-his three unfinished novels, his unpublished stories, diaries, and letters-would appear in print. We will never know if Kafka really meant for Brod to do what he asked Brod believed that it was Kafka's high artistic standards and merciless self-criticism that lay behind the request, but he also believed that Kafka had deliberately asked the one person he knew would not honor his wishes (because Brod had explicitly told him so). Yours, Franz Kafka” These famous words written to Kafka's friend Max Brod have puzzled Kafka's readers ever since they appeared in the postscript to the first edition of The Trial, published in 1925, a year after Kafka's death. ![]() in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters (my own and others'), sketches, and so on, to be burned unread. Preface copyright © 1998 by Breon Mitchell ISBN: 0805241655 Publisher's Note “Dearest Max, my last request: Everything I leave behind me. THE TRIAL A NEW TRANSLATION, BASED ON THE RESTORED TEXT FRANZ KAFKA Translated and with a preface by Breon Mitchell Copyright © 1998 by Schocken Books Inc. ![]()
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