Haaretz reports:
The Israeli police unit that investigates major international crimes
is looking into whether invaluable German manuscripts of author Franz
Kafka were stolen from the home of Eva Hoffe, or from somewhere else,
Haaretz has learned. Hoffe is the daughter of Esther Hoffe, the
secretary of Kafka friend and publisher Max Brod.
Police found the stolen manuscripts about a
month ago.
They consulted with experts from the National Library in
Jerusalem, in order to determine whether they were authentic. Police
asked the library for Kafka manuscripts that it possesses, so that the
found goods can be compared to them. The National Library's collection
includes rare Kafka manuscripts, which are secured in a safe
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See also:
Franz Kafka (1992) - Piotr Dumala
A film about a few years from Kafka's life, based mostly on his DIARIES.
"Their language, more chaotic and direct, differs from that of the
novels - it is expressive, vivid, often crude, but more than anything
very detailed and good at conveying the sensuality of the world. It is
Kafka whom we do not know from his short stories or aphorisms - one who
loves immersing himself in corporality, in people's physiognomies and
smells, in the pathological details of their bodies and dress, and in
his own, grotesquely enlarged thinness and his body's proneness to
illness... Here is not the author of well-known novels, but, first of
all, a man" (Barbara Kosecka, "Kwartalnik Filmowy", 19-20/1997). Barbara
Kosecka's praise for the film: " 'Franz Kafka', a sixteen-minute
masterpiece of animation" ("Kino" 2/2002).
Franz Kafka's "The Trial" - Film, Literature & The New World Order
On this installment of Film, Literature and the New World Order, The
Corbett Report delves into Franz Kafka's nightmare vision of a world
where nameless accusations initiate extra-legal proceedings against the
accused, ensnaring them in a system of control at once pervasive and
invisible...a nightmare vision that is slowly coming true.
and, from The Onion: Prague's Kafka International Named Most Alienating Airport