"Fortunately, " said Nabokov in his own lecture on Kafka, "Brod did not comply with his friend's wishes."

纳博科夫在他关于卡夫卡的讲座里自己说，「Brod没有照他朋友的心愿办。」

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Kafka asked his friend Max Brod to burn all his papers, which included the novels we know as the Trial and the Castle.

卡夫卡要他的朋友Max Brod烧掉他所有的文件，其中包括我们都知道的小说《审判》和《城堡》。

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However, lawyers for the Hoffe family say they were given as a present by Brod to Esther Hoffe and were hers to do with as she wished.

但是霍夫家庭的律师说，布洛德把文稿作为礼物赠与以斯帖·霍夫，因而文稿是霍夫的，应按照她的意愿处理。

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"Brad and Angelina don't go gifting, " says Jodi Simms Hassan of Alison Brod public relations.

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Brod said, Franz should have appointed another executor if he had been absolutely and finally determined that his instruction should stand.

NPR: Family Pauses over Woman's Posthumous Request

The author Franz Kafka famously demanded that his papers be burned after his death, but his friend and literary executor Max Brod refuse to do it.

NPR: Family Pauses over Woman's Posthumous Request