were in Brod's possession. In 1961, Pasley transported them by car from Switzerland to Oxford. Pasley reflected on the adventure as one that "made his own hair stand on end". The papers, except The Trial, were deposited in Oxford's Bodleian Library. The Trial remained in the possession of Brod heiress Ilse Ester Hoffe, and in November 1988 the German Literary Archives at Marbach, Germany purchased the manuscript for £1.1 million in an auction conducted by Sotheby's. At Oxford, Pasley headed a team of scholars (Gerhard Neumann, Jost Schillemeit, and Jürgen Born) that recompiled the text, removed Max Brod's edits and changes, and began publishing the works in 1982. This team restored the original German text to its full (and in some cases incomplete) state, with special attention paid to the unique Kafka punctuation, considered to be critical to his style. Criticism of Pasley's work on Kafka Subsequent to the publication of the Kafka works, Pasley began receiving criticism about the completeness of their German publication. To that end, Stroemfeld Verlag has requested permission to scan the manuscripts to produce a facsimile edition and CD-ROM. Aside from completeness, they cited a concern for the preservation of the works; some were written in pencil, and many were fading and crumbling. Pasley refused their requests, joined by Marianne Steiner, who in 1998, told The Observer "I cannot forgive them for [the terrible things they had said about Pasley. I do not want them to have anything to do with the manuscripts." In April 1998, Stroemfeld published a facsimile version of The Trial. This manuscript, being owned by the German government, was accessible to them. In this publication the manuscript and transcription are listed side by side. Scholars in favor of the Stroemfeld editions include Jeremy Adler, professor of German at King's College London, American writers Louis Begley and Harold Bloom, professor of Humanities at Yale. Works Published works 1965 Kafka-Symposion, co-author with Klaus Wagenbach 1972 Germany: a companion to German studies (second edition, 1982) 1978 Nietzsche: Imagery and Thought, 1982 Das Schloß (The Castle) 1987/89 Max Brod, Franz Kafka: eine Freundschaft 1990 Der Prozeß (The Trial) 1990 Reise- Tagebucher, Kafka's travel diaries 1991 Die Handschrift redet (The Manuscript Talks) 1991 The Great Wall of China and Other Stories 1992 The Transformation and Other Stories 1993 Nachgelassene Schriften und Fragmente I 1995 Die Schrift ist unveränderlich (The Script is Unchangeable) 1996 Judgment & In