Max Brod, a successful novelist, was a boyhood companion of Kafka\'s and remained closely tied to him until Kafka\'s death in 1924.
Out of a lifelong devoted friendship, Brod drew this account of Kafka\'s youth, family and friends, his struggle to recognize himself as a writer, his sickness, and his last.
He was undoubtedly the one man whom Kafka trusted more than any other, and it is to Brod, as his literary executor and editor, that we are indebted for rescuing and bringing to light Kafka\'s work.
Max Brod, a successful novelist, was a boyhood companion of Kafka\'s and remained closely tied to him until Kafka\'s death in 1924