where would we be without Max Brod?

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no Kafka diaries, no The Castle, no The Trial. Franz wanted to have his work burned after he died, Max agreed to this while Franz was still alive, thankfully he did not fulfill that promise. Were Kafka living/dying today, his work could of been deleted with a single keystroke,although he seemed to be the kind of person to keep notes, not files. Are there any other writers that did have works destroyed after their deaths?

― Vacillating temp (Vacillating temp), Monday, 29 December 2003 05:13 (twenty years ago) link

thanks dude! (brod)

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 29 December 2003 06:17 (twenty years ago) link

brod didn't agree to it, he told kafka that he'd never do it - and franz made no attempt to find anyone else to carry out the task, which is how brod justified not burning any of it.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 29 December 2003 07:28 (twenty years ago) link

Are there any other writers that did have works destroyed after their deaths?

Sylvia Plath. Ted Hughes apparently destroyed (or "lost" as he put it) some of her later diaries after she died to protect the family. The stuff that'd relate to her best poetry. To me thats a loss, as a fan of her later work.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 29 December 2003 07:35 (twenty years ago) link

Gerard Manley Hopkins threw all of his pre-"born again" poetry into his fireplace shortly after his epiphany.

I've heard several stories of wives pulling husbands manuscripts out of fires after said husband gets pissed at something or another, but honestly can't recall anyone specifically at the moment. Wait...didn't that happen to Mozart, too? Maybe that was just a fictionalization in Amadeus, but I remember that was discussed.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Monday, 29 December 2003 18:24 (twenty years ago) link

vera nabokov supposedly stopped vladimir when he was on his way to the furnace with "lolita," at least according to him in every interview he ever gave

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 03:25 (twenty years ago) link

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