Letters to Milena / Franz Kafka ; translated and with an introduction by Philip Boehm.
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 gifted and charismatic twenty-three-year-old who was unique...
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| Other title: | Briefe an Milena. English |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English German |
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New York :
Schocken Books,
2015.
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| Edition: | Second [American] paperback edition. |
| Series: | Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924. Works. 1990.
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| Summary: | 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 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 " aliving 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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| Item Description: | Originally published in German in different form as Briefe an Milena by S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt, in 1952. This edition is based on the enlarged and revised German edition, edited by Jürgen Born and Michael Müller, published by S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt and Main. Translation of: Briefe an Milena. |
| Physical Description: | xviii, 293 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0805212671 9780805212679 0749399457 9780749399450 0805208852 9780805208856 0805240705 9780805240702 0805231455 9780805231458 |