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May 23, 2024 · Max Brod (born May 27, 1884, Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now in Czech Republic]—died Dec. 20, 1968, Tel Aviv, Israel) was a German-language novelist and essayist known primarily as the friend of Franz Kafka and as the editor of his major works, which were published after Kafka’s death.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
May 23, 2024 · Max Brod — close friend, betrayer of Kafka’s last instruction to burn his manuscripts, heavy-handed editor of his diaries and unfinished novels, and author of the first Kafka biography ...
2 days ago · Max Brod, born on May 27, 1884, in Prague, Czechoslovakia, is a key figure in Prague Jewish German literature. His most notable contribution to the literary world is his role in preserving and publishing the works of Franz Kafka, despite Kafka's explicit wishes for his writings to be destroyed.
3 days ago · Kafka asked his friend Max Brod to destroy his work after his death. Thankfully, he did not, and the Bodleian is now home to the largest archive on Franz Kafka. How has the archive been used over the years?
May 26, 2024 · Max Brod, an important representative of Prague Jewish German literature, was born 140 years ago, on May 27, 1884. He is best known as the saviour of Franz Kafka's work.
3 days ago · He had no wife or heirs; in his will he instructed his friend, the author Max Brod, to burn his unpublished writings. Luckily Brod did not oblige. Instead he worked hard to build Kafka’s...
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May 23, 2024 · A Comic Biography. By Nicolas Mahler. Pushkin Press, pb, £12.99. Kafka, one of the greatest Jewish writers of the 20th century, died 100 years ago.
