Your assignment is to respond to the essay, “Kafka’s Last Trial” by Elif Batuman, published in The New York Times Magazine, September 22, 2010 in a paper of 1200-2000 words. You may use your reading of Metamorphosis or any other Kafka work to assess his place in 20th century world literature.
Address 1) your opinion of Max Brod’s response to his friend’s instructions to destroy his work; 2) what would you have done if you were in Brod’s place? 3) As events unfolded, who should own Kafka’s work and why should that matter? 4) What is the outcome?Was justice done?