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Experts to examine Franz Kafka's unseen documents

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From: The Hindustan Times
Date: 20080710
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London, July 10 -- Previously unseen documents belonging to the writer Franz Kafka, which remained locked away in his executor Max Brod's home in Tel Aviv for four decades, are to be examined by experts.

Since his death in 1968, Brod's secretary Esther Hoffe had been keeping the papers.

She refused to release them until her recent death at the age of 101.

Experts are still not sure whether the papers will be legible after so many years.

Franz Kafka, who died from tuberculosis aged 41, wanted all his manuscripts to be ...

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