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Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924, author.

Letters to Milena / Franz Kafka ; translated and with an introduction by Philip Boehm.

Second [American] paperback edition.

New York : Schocken Books, 2015.

©1990

xviii, 293 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates ; 21 cm.

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 "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.

The Schocken Kafka library

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924. Works. English. 1990.

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 -- Correspondence.

Jesenská, Milena, 1896-1944.

Authors, Austrian -- 20th century -- Correspondence.

Journalists -- Czechoslovakia -- Biography.

Boehm, Philip, translator.

Briefe an Milena. English

Originally published in German in a 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.

Includes appendices and notes.

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