Gaelle vassogne max brod biography

The Prague-born, German-speaking intellectual Max Brod is most remembered for his friendship with another Prague writer Franz Kafka.

This sometimes overshadowed his own work, which included journalistic pieces, novels, essays and music. In 1951, when he was already living in Israel, Max Brod wrote two songs based on Kafka’s poems.

Gaelle vassogne max brod biography wikipedia

A recently published book on Max Brod by Prague-based, French historian Gaelle Vassogne focuses on Brod’s activities in Prague, among a group of writers that later became known as “the Prague Circle.” Gaelle Vassogne says that Max Brod’s crucial role was in mediating the relations between Czechs and Germans.

“Yes, you are right, Brod is famous for being Kafka’s best friend and the man who didn’t burn the manuscripts, which is what Kafka asked him to do, but he’s way more than that.

He was a leading culture critic during the first Czechoslovak republic. He was working for the Pra