Letters to Milena - Paperback
by Franz Kafka
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Availability:In StockContributor:Franz Kafka, Philip BoehmSeries:Schocken Kafka LibraryPublish date:2015-11-03Pages:320
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Schocken Books Inc.ISBN-13:9780805212679ISBN-10:805212671UPC:9780805212679Book Category:Literary Collections, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Letters, Personal Memoirs, Literary FiguresSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.7Product ID:SC1HFEHGAP
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.
"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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Schocken Books Inc.ISBN-13:9780805212679ISBN-10:805212671UPC:9780805212679Book Category:Literary Collections, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Letters, Personal Memoirs, Literary FiguresSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.7Product ID:SC1HFEHGAP
FRANZ KAFKA was born in Prague in 1883 and died of tuberculosis in a sanatorium near Vienna in 1924. After earning a law degree in 1906, he worked for most of his adult life at the Worker's Accident Insurance Institute in Prague. Only a small portion of Kafka's writings were published during his lifetime. He left instructions for his friend and literary executor Max Brod to destroy all of his unpublished work after his death, instructions Brod famously ignored.
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