Letters to Milena - Vintage Classics

Franz Kafka's letters to his one-time muse, Milena Jesenska - an intimate window into the desires and hopes of the twentieth-century's most prophetic and important writerKafka first made the acquaintance of Milena Jesenska in 1920 when she was translating his early short prose into Czech, and their relationship quickly developed into a deep attachment. Such was his feeling for her that Kafka showed her his diaries and, in doing so, laid bare his heart and his conscience. While at times Milena's 'genius for living' gave Kafka new life, it ultimately exhausted him, and their relationship was to last little over two years. In 1924 Kafka died in a sanatorium near Vienna, and Milena died in 1944 at the hands of the Nazis, leaving these letters as a moving record of their relationship.

ISBN:	9781784874001
Publisher:	Random House
Imprint:	Vintage Classics
Published date:	06 Dec 2018
DEWEY:	833.912
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xviii, 249
Weight:	198g
Height:	193mm
Width:	125mm
Spine width:	18mm

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