In an article captioned "In Israel, a tangled battle over the papers of Franz Kafka," the Washington Post Times reports that Franz Kafka "wanted his papers burned after he wasted away from tuberculosis in 1924, but they're still being fought over. It is a legal dispute pitting Israel against the heirs of Kafka's literary executor and putting the nation in competition with a German archive in a battle that comes with a new dose of mystery, including tales of a secret Swiss safe.
The papers are in at least a half-dozen bank boxes in Tel Aviv and Switzerland and may -- or may not -- contain unpublicized letters and writings by Kafka, a Czechoslovakian Jew and seminal figure in 20th-century culture. No matter what they include, academics consider them a literary gold mine likely to offer new insights into the writer of such works as 'The Trial' and 'The Metamorphosis.'"
Posted by Neil I. Rumbak, Associate Editor, Wealth Strategies Journal
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