Description
This collection gathers Franz Kafka’s intimate correspondence with Milena Jesenská, a gifted writer, translator, and journalist with whom he shared a profound intellectual and emotional connection. Written between 1920 and 1923, the letters explore love, longing, isolation, illness, creativity, and the difficulties of human communication. Alongside Kafka’s writing, this edition offers additional material that deepens the portrait of Milena and illuminates the literary and personal world surrounding their relationship. Candid, searching, and psychologically acute, the collection reveals Kafka’s distinctive voice in one of his most personal forms.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Random House
Published Jan 1, 2018
272 pages
ISBN: 9781784874001
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Details
First Published
1952
Language
eng
Translation
Original: Briefe an Milena
From: deu
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka.