TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kafka, Franz,  
TI  - Letters to Milena
SN  - 9781784874001
PY  - 1999///
CY  - London
PB  - Vintage
KW  - Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924--Correspondence
KW  - Journalists--Czechoslovakia--Biography
N2  - "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."--
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