Letters to Milena
By: edited by Willy Haas ; translated by Tania and James Stern.
Contributors: Haas, Willy.
Publisher: Minerva
Published: 1992
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: Kafka, Franz, -- 1883-1924.; Jesenská, Milena.
Work titles: Briefe an Milena.
Description: 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.
Notes: This translation originally published, London, Secker & Warburg, 1953.

Translation of 'Briefe an Milena'.