>"Dearest Max, My last request: Everything I leave behind me . . . in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters (my own and others’), sketches and so on, to be burned unread."
>"Hmmm... should I grant the last wish of my best friend or make fat stacks?"
>[...]
>"My only reason to fuck my dead friend over, is because the world has to see and acknowledge his genius! Oh wait, he doesn't have anyone to inherit the profits? I will take good care of it after giving this and that to my secretary/mistress!"
What an asshole desu. And now the fucking daughters of Brod's secretary get 2 million? What the actual fuck.
Kafka's writing was the common inheritance of humanity. Requesting them to be destroyed on his death, thereby depriving millions of pleasure, was simply pure arrogance.
If he really wanted them burned he would have done it himself
What is with this meme of willing people to burn your stuff after you die?
>>8925128
t. Eva and Ruth Hoffe, who are 2 million $ richer, because their mother slept with Max Brod, which fucked over his dead best friend
>>8925128
"Humanity" doesn't even exist.
>>8925117
I always wanted to leave in my will that my friends and relatives should get my writings published. But they'll probably read it first, decide that it's degenerate wankery and burn it all.
>>8925117
he deleted the really dirty shit that would have made kafka james joyce tier
>>8925153
Holy shit, the edge. Look up "homo sapiens" in the encyclopedia.
>>8925184
There is no "humanity" with a "common inheritance," fag. Homo sapiens isn't real either, a non-political taxonomic system would not classify us all as the same species.
>>8925189
Yep, it's all a conspiracy anon.
>>8925140
>dead
>fucked over
Does not compute
>>8925189
>Homo sapiens isn't real either, a non-political taxonomic system would not classify us all as the same species
Has a biologist ever addressed this?