Scholars have speculated that the papers could include endings to some unfinished works
A long-hidden trove of Franz Kafka’s unpublished writings could soon be unveiled following a legal battle that has taken literary investigators from a cat-filled apartment in Tel Aviv to secret bank vaults in Switzerland. In a nightmarishly complex case that could have sprung from the writer’s own pen, a Swiss court has ruled that thousands of Kafka documents hidden inside safe deposit boxes in Zurich must be sent to Israel’s national library.
Brod refused to burn the work and instead edited the manuscripts and took them to publishers. The decision posthumously transformed Kafka from a little-known short story writer to one of the 20th century’s most important literary figures. “Brod was keen not to follow the wish of his best friend to destroy everything, on the contrary, he mercilessly published everything,” said Stefan Litt, humanities curator at the National Library of Israel.
She stored some documents in bank vaults in Israel and Switzerland and kept some in her Tel Aviv apartment.
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