Letters to Milena
Click to look inside
World of Books
The feel-good place to buy books
Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka
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
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.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780805212679 |
| ISBN 10 | 0805212671 |
| Title | Letters to Milena |
| Author | Franz Kafka |
| Series | The Schocken Kafka Library |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Schocken Books |
| Year published | 2015-11-03 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |