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Letters to Milena

Franz Kafka (Author)

  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • 272 Page / Published 2018-12-06
  • Category: Non-Fiction , Business & Bio
  • ISBN: 9781784874001
  • Language: English
  • Format: PB
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Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka was one of the major fiction writers of the 20th century. His unique body of writing—much of which is incomplete and which was mainly published posthumously—is considered to be among....

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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 writer Kafka 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.