Letters to Milena
Author | : Franz Kafka |
Publisher | : Schocken |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2015-11-03 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780805212679 |
ISBN-13 | : 0805212671 |
Rating | : 4/5 (671 Downloads) |
Download or read book Letters to Milena written by Franz Kafka and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In no other work does Franz Kafka reveal himself as in Letters to Milena, which begins as a business correspondence but soon develops into a passionate but doomed epistolary love affair. Kafka's Czech translator, Milena Jesenská, was a gifter 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.