'You are the knife I turn inside myself'
Franz Kafka's letters to his one-time muse,Milena Jesenska - an intimate window into the desires and hopes of the twentieth-century's most prophetic and important writer.
Kafka first made the acquaintance of Milena Jesenska in 1920 when she was translating his early short prose into Czech. Their relationship quickly developed into a deep attachment. Such was his feeling for her that Kafka showed her his diaries and,in doing so,laid bare his heart and his conscience.
While at times Milena's'genius for living'gave Kafka new life,it ultimately exhausted him,and their relationship was to last little over two years. In 1924 Kafka died in a sanatorium near Vienna,and Milena died in 1944 at the hands of the Nazis,leaving these letters as a moving record of their relationship.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9781784874001Number of pages: 272Weight: 191 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 17 mm
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Franz Kafka
One of the most influential authors of the 20th Century,Franz Kafka was a Bohemian novelist and short story writer,best known for The Trial and The Metamorphosis.
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