A manuscript and letter of a story by author Franz Kafka were sold for 286 thousand euros at an auction in Hamburg. This situation was reported by the DPA agency. TASS.
We are talking about the original five-page manuscript of the story “The First Pity” and an accompanying three-page letter dated early May 1922.
The letter was considered lost for decades and was only discovered in 1983 by the family of the letter’s recipient, Hans Mardersteig.
Mardersteig and Kurt Wolf asked Kafka several times to publish in Genius magazine, which Mardersteig co-edited. Kurt Wolf said it was a moving account of Kafka’s five-year creative crisis, and his friend Max Brod called Kafka’s texts “delightfully beautiful.”
The manuscript and letter were purchased by an unnamed private collector.
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Source: Gazeta
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