Kafka’s Unpublished Manuscripts Uncovered

Manuscripts and drawings of the writer Franz Kafka have just been released from a safe deposit box in Zurich, according the BBC News. The question now becomes, should these manuscripts be published? Kafka had ordered his friend and fellow writer Max Brod to burn his manuscripts after his death, but Brod ultimately ignored Kafka’s request. Many of Kafka’s works were in fact published posthumously after Brod had not burned the manuscripts.

The story is a reminder of the drama that ensued when Nabokov instructed his family to burn his final incomplete novel, The Original of Laura, written on 183 separate index cards. The novel was never burned and was held in a safe deposit box in Switzerland for 30 years until it was published by Knopf in 2009.

via BBC News – Newsnight – Should newly uncovered Kafka manuscripts be published?.