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Name: Letters to Milena

Author: Franz Kafka
Year: 1952
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Non Fiction, Classic, Biographies

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ISBNs:
9780805208856
9780805212679
0805208852
0805212671

In no other work does Kafka reveal himself as in the Letters to Milena, which begin essentially as a business correspondence but soon develop into a passionate "letter love." Milena Jesenska was a gifted and charismatic woman of twenty-three. Kafka's Czech translator, she was uniquely able to recognize his complex genius and his even more complex character. For the thirty-six-year-old Kafka, she was "a living fire, such as I have never seen." It was to her that he revealed his most intimate self. It was to her that, after the end of the affair, he entrusted the safekeeping of his diaries.

Newly translated, revised, and expanded, this edition contains material previously omitted because of its extreme sensitivity. Also included for the first time are letters and essays by Milena Jesenska, herself a talented writer as well as the recipient of these documents of Kafka's love, anxiety, and despair.