I think there is something disturbing in the fact of publication of that part of the literary heritage, which had not been published during the author's lifetime. Before turning into a literary archive, an author's laboratory is his inviolable territory, and he is free to dispose of it as he sees fit. But when his lifetime runs out, the historical time asserts its rights, and the individual is powerless. Perhaps this human weakness is the excuse of those who dare to break the intimacy of the manuscripts, which grow thinner as the time passes. I take steps to this duty of mine with all due respect to the writer, and with all my filial affection for the man...
Sylvia Wagenstein