/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.20507375]

>Kafka orders Brod to burn the manuscripts for The Castle and The Trial
>Brod publishes them instead
who was in the wrong here?

[Anonymous No.20507401]

>>20507375
You forgot
>Brod says to Kafka's face that he won't do it

[Anonymous No.20507409]

>>20507375
Kafka for thinking a will is legally binding, let alone last wishes. He's Jewish and should've known better.

[Anonymous No.20507909]

>>20507401
>>20507409
So he gave orders that weren't legally binding at all, and possibly even didn't expect those orders to be obeyed in the first place, to someone who would never have followed them?

How Kafkaesque.

[Anonymous No.20507986]

Borges has an interesting perspective on this matter. He says that every author, no matter how self-hating and miserable, believes he is good enough to be read. Believes he is good enough to take the world by storm. Or else he wouldn't write anything at all.

So Borges argues that deep down, despite being completely obscure and dying in poverty, Kafka nurtured the faint hope, even on his deathbed, that his name might go down as a great writer. This is why he did not move to stop Brod from not burning the manuscripts.

Borges argues that, if Kafka had REALLY wanted to ensure that they didn't get read, he would have burned them himself. But he didn't.

[Anonymous No.20508038]

>>20507375
Kafkaesque

[Anonymous No.20508046]

It is a tough call, on the one hand, archeology and arifacts and museums and the human desire to cherish and preserve history.

On the other hand, The Trial does not fit what I'm about to say description, but it is possible for a writer to actually write really bad, embaressing, terrible awkward, things that may be they would and should want not to be read by the public.

[Anonymous No.20508102]

>>20507986
this destroys the "write for yourself" fags

[Anonymous No.20508256]

>>20507986
human since the dawn of time when to be cherish and love, most writers too.