Max Brod
Israeli author and music criticWikipedia
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Sep 12, 2026
Cynthia PacesGUEST
I studied, um, the Habsburg monarchy with Istvan Deak at Columbia, who's one of... was one of the foremost experts on the region.
Cynthia PacesGUEST
So I certainly am the most comfortable researching that modern period, and I really love the 1890s up until World War I where, where I feel like you have maybe the last breath of that multicultural Prague that is so important as a theme in my book of, of German and Czech art and literature and music, as well as the prominence of, of Jewish intellectuals, of course Kafka, Einstein, Max Brod.
Cynthia PacesGUEST
So there's also, again, you can't idealize because there was also a lot of nationalist tension.
Cynthia PacesGUEST
There were riots, um, in the 1890s and again in 1907 between Czechs and Germans.
Glenn FisherHOST
I'm Franz Kafka.
Glenn FisherHOST
You're Max Brod.
Glenn FisherHOST
I come to you and
Glenn FisherHOST
I say, Max, mate, I've written a load of stuff.
Glenn FisherHOST
Put them in the toaster.
Glenn FisherHOST
Destroy them.
Glenn FisherHOST
You, Max, my friend, what do you do? What would you do if you were Max Brod?
Fiona MozleyGUEST
I would go to Kafka's house.
Will SelfGUEST
And the prose? Mwah! As I've said, it's beautifully adequate to that mannerist era, the pause before the industrialisation of meaning which may yet kill human artistry altogether as everyone becomes a cyborg.
Will SelfGUEST
Michael Hoffman, in a perceptive introduction to Kafka's metamorphosis and other stories, which he has equally beautifully translated, reflects upon Max Brod's posthumous curation of Kafka's reputation and wonders what the world would now make of Kafka.
Will SelfGUEST
had broad not preserved the manuscripts of the three unfinished novels and ensured that the shorter fiction remained in print hoffman concludes that kafka would indeed have been remembered as a relatively minor writer but as a minor writer of genius The stories had been published and recognized by a small but highly discriminating readership.
Will SelfGUEST
Carl Sternheim had passed on to Kafka the prize money from his Fontaine Prize, and writers of the standing of Robert Musil had already recognized his importance.