The rest appeared to be aspiring writers or students eager for literary and political instruction.
Known as an artistic perfectionist and a literary purist, he left behind instructions that the cards were to be destroyed.
In fact, misgivings about his work caused Kafka before his death to request that all of his unpublished manuscripts be destroyed; his literary executor, Max Brod, disregarded his instructions.
By the time she formally presented the results of her experiment in May, she was no longer speaking to reporters, on instructions of her literary agent.
Kafka left his work, both published and unpublished, to his friend and literary executor Max Brod with explicit instructions that it should be destroyed on Kafka's death; Kafka wrote: "Dearest Max, my last request: Everything I leave behind me ... in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters (my own and others'), sketches, and so on, [is] to be burned unread".
The Sterling professor of humanities at Yale offers instruction in how to read literary texts.
The Sterling professor of humanities at Yale offers instruction in how best to read literary texts.
For agents who manage the posthumous estates of great writers, a great deal depends on what kind of instructions have been left by the author or the literary executor he or she appoints – if, indeed, there is an executor.
In 1848 Sharpe founded the Lancaster Athenaeum, a private society for "the promotion of public entertainment and instruction", to which end it organised lectures on literary and scientific subjects, concerts and exhibitions.
Most writers as well as readers of literary fiction see it as a refined form of entertainment or instruction.
