Kafka’s Final Absurdity: How His Papers Ended Up Being Hoarded By An Israeli Cat Lady

“For the past 40 years, the women of the Hoffe family have held an assortment of Kafka’s primary drafts, letters, drawings and, possibly, unpublished manuscripts.” (Esther Hoffe was the mistress of Kafka’s agent, Max Brod.) “[The] women have guarded [the papers] closely, and to this day no one is sure exactly what they contain.”