Letters to Milena (Vintage Classics)

Letters to Milena (Vintage Classics)

by Kafka, Franz, Boehm, Philip

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Franz Kafka's letters to his one-time muse, Milen Jesenska--an intimate window into the desires and hopes of the twentieth-century's most prophetic and important writer
     
Kafka first met 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 Milena 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 a new sense of vitality, it ultimately exhausted him, and their relationship was to last little over two years. In 1924 Kafka died in a sanatorium near Vienna, while Milena died in 1944 at the hands of the Nazis, leaving these letters as a moving record of their relationship.
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