Burn Everything: Kafka's Last Wish
Kafka left instructions for his unpublished work to be destroyed. His friend Max Brod chose to preserve it. This literature film follows that decision and the uncomfortable question of who gets the final word.
Read the companion essayThe books that should have burned.About Burn Everything: Kafka's Last Wish
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KAFKA'S LAST WISH: Burn everything 🔥 In 1924 Franz Kafka died of tuberculosis at forty. He had published only short stories. In his desk, his best friend Max Brod found a note: everything was to be burned, unread. Brod refused. He published The Trial, The Castle and Amerika, and in March 1939 he fled Prague with a suitcase full of Kafka's papers.
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