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Letters to Milena
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Series: Schocken Kafka Library
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ISBN10: 0805212671
ISBN13: 9780805212679
Publisher: Schocken Books Inc
Published: Nov 3 2015
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780805212679
Publisher: Schocken Books Inc
Published: Nov 3 2015
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
The passionate but doomed epistolary love affair between a Czech translator and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial.
Extraordinary...touching, horrifying, brilliant, sickly, [and] heartbreaking.... The most significant key we have for a reading of the author's novels and short stories. --The New York Times
Extraordinary...touching, horrifying, brilliant, sickly, [and] heartbreaking.... The most significant key we have for a reading of the author's novels and short stories. --The New York Times
In no other work does Franz Kafka reveal himself as in Letters to Milena, which begins as a business correspondence but soon develops into an 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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