‘The Trial’ manuscript for sale
NZPA-AP London The handwritten manuscript of Franz Kafka’s “The Trial,” considered one of the twentieth century’s great novels, will be sold on November 17 in London, the auctioneer, Sotheby’s, has announced. Sotheby’s called it “the
most important modern literary manuscript at auction,” and said it was expected to fetch £1 million ($2.66 million), well above the record for a literary item. The record was set last year in New York when Sotheby’s auctioned Kafka’s correspondence
with Felice Bauer, the lover he never married, for $U5605,000 ($980,100). “The Trial,” written in German on 316 pages torn by Kafka from a notebook, was published in 1925, the year after his death, and rapidly won recognition as a modern masterpiece.
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