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Auction; Bonn Buys Kafka Papers; `Trial' Manuscript Brings Record $1.7 Million

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19881118
Author:Katherine Stephen

The only existing manuscript of Franz Kafka's epoch-making novel "The Trial" has been bought by the West German government for a record sum. The manuscript, auctioned today at Sotheby's, brought the anticipated price of 1 million pounds (about $1.7 million), the highest ever paid at auction for a modern literary manuscript.

The manuscript was bought by Heribert Tenschert, a West German bookseller who said its eventual destination would be the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Schiller National Museum at Marbach, near Stuttgart in West Germany.

"I was prepared to pay twice what I bid for the ...

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