Letters To Milena
Franz Kafka, Philip BoehmA new translation of Kafka's letters to his Czech translator, Milena Jesenska, includes materials previously unpublished as well as some of her letters and essays.
"The voice of Kafka in Letters to Milena is more personal, more pure, and more painful than in his fiction: a testimony to human existence and to our eternal wait for the impossible. A marvellous new edition of a classic text." — Jan Kott
“An extraordinary document—touching, horrifying, brilliant, sickly, heartbreaking, and infinitely convoluted... It reveals him most clearly (which is relative, and Kafka remains mystifying enough), and it is — aside from the beauty of the letters themselves — the most significant key we have for a reading of the author’s novels and short stories.” — The New York Times
FRANZ KAFKA was born in 1883 in Prague, where he lived most of his life. He published only a few short stories, including “The Metamorphosis,” “The Judgment,” and “The Stoker.” He died in 1924, before completing any of his full-length novels. At the end of his life, Kafka asked his lifelong friend and literary executor Max Brod to burn all his unpublished work. Brod overrode those wishes.