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Letters to Milena

By Franz , Boehm , Philip;Jesenská , Milena;Kafka

Book information

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Schocken Books
ISBN
9780805212679, 9780804150774, 9780749399450, 0749399457, 9780805208856, 0805208852, 0805212671, 9780805231458, 0805231455, 9780805240702, 0805240705, 9781448161317, 1448161312
Language
english
Format
AZW3
Filesize
1 MB (1141348 bytes)
Series
The Schocken Kafka Library
Edition
Second American paperback edition
Pages
xviii, 293 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates ;
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
-- 1883-1924 -- Correspondence;Jesenská-- 1883-1924;Authors-- 1896-1944;KafkaAustrian -- 20th century -- Correspondence;JournalAustrian--20th century;Journalists;Journalists--CzAustrian;AuthorsAuthorsFranzMilena

Description

In no other work does Franz Kafka reveal himself as in Letters to Milena, which begins as a business correspondence but soon develops into a passionate but doomed epistolary love affair. Kafka's Czech translator, Milena Jesenská, was a gifted and charismatic twenty-three-year-old who was uniquely able to recognize Kafka's complex genius and his even more complex character. For thirty-six-year-old Kafka, she was "a living fire, such as I have never seen." It was to Milena that he revealed his most intimate self and, eventually, entrusted his diaries for safekeeping.

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