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interesting. The Kafka we meet here is almost the opposite
of the one we have come to expect.
STEPHEN ROMEI, Literary Editor, The Australian
It is 1908, and Max Brod is the rising star of Pragues literary world.
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Everything he desiresfame, respect, loveis finally within his
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reach. But when a rival appears on the scene, Max discovers how
quickly he can lose everything he has worked so hard to attain. He
knows that the newcomer, Franz Kafka, has the power to eclipse
him for good, and he must decide to what lengths he will go to hold
onto his success. But there is more to Franz than meets the eye, and
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Max, too, has secrets that are darker than even he knows, secrets that
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may in the end destroy both of them.
The Lost Pages is a richly reimagined story of Max Brods life filtered
through his relationship with Franz Kafka. In this inspired novel
of friendship, fraud, madness and betrayal, Marija Pericic writes
vividly and compellingly of an extraordinary literary rivalry.
FICTION
M a r i j a P e r i c i c
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Professor Wendell Persson
University of Kent
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The pages that appear here have been translated from the
German. They come from a series of notes handwritten in exercise
books, which also contain a number of loose sheets of notepaper,
photographs and other documents, which together, make up Max
Brods memoirs. The material is in fair condition, considering
its age, although there are some areas of illegibility due to water
damage and ageing of the paper. Some sections of the papers are
also presented in nearly illegible handwriting. Areas where approx-
imations have been made are indicated in the text.
The translation and verification process of these papers has been
a slow one to date, partly due to the poor quality of some of the
documents in the archive and their disorganisation. This section
represents the first coherent manuscript from the collection that has
been translated, and will shortly be available for online accessas
will, in time, the rest of the Kafka papers.
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* In the manuscripts Franz Kafka appears as F.K. or F-; we have replaced this
with his first name in the interest of consistency.
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It turned out that even if I had burned the stories, as I had wanted
to, it would not have made the slightest difference. Even without
my help, they found their way into print. Some months later, I was
invited to the launch of the new edition of Hyperion, to which I
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* In the space below the text there are several small pencil sketches of a womans
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* This sentence is followed by several others that have been heavily crossed out
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