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`The Trial' Heads to Auction; Record Price Expected For Kafka Manuscript
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In a red-walled chamber lit by a skylight and crystal
chandeliers, a sheaf of 316 pieces of paper-ragged on the left side
from being torn out of an exercise book-will be brought in by a
uniformed attendant on Thursday afternoon and placed on an auction
block.
The auctioneer's gavel is not expected to drop until the bidding
reaches at least 1 million pounds (approximately $1.7 million), which
will make the papers in question-the only existing manuscript of
Franz Joseph Kafka's "The Trial"-the most valuable modern literary
manuscript ever sold at auction.
The interest generated by the ...
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