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The papers, retrieved from bank vaults where they have sat untouched and
unread for decades, could shed new light on one of literature's darkest
figures.
In the past week, the pages have been pulled from safety deposit boxes in
Tel Aviv and Zurich, Switzerland, on the order of an Israeli court over the
objections of two elderly women who claim to have inherited them from their
mother.
"Kafka could easily have written a story like this, where you try to do
something and it all goes wrong and everything remains unresolved," said
Sara Loeb, a Tel Aviv-based author of two books about the writer. "It's
really a case of life imitating art."
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