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Auction; Bonn Buys Kafka Papers; `Trial' Manuscript Brings Record $1.7 Million
From:
The Washington Post
| Date:
November 18, 1988| Author:
Katherine Stephen
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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 Natio...
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