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Letters to Milena
Název | ISBN | Sklad | Letters to Milena | 9780805212679 | 35 |
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Autor | Verlag | Sprache | Seiten | Veröffentlicht | Breite | Höhe | Franz Kafka | Schocken Books | EN | 320 | 2015 | 13 cm | 20 cm |
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Váha | 0.35kg |
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The passionate but doomed epistolary love affair between a Czech translator and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial.
"Extraordinary...touching, horrifying, brilliant, sickly, [and] heartbreaking.... The most significant key we have for a reading of the author's novels and short stories." --The New York Times
In no other work does Franz Kafka reveal himself as in Letters to Milena, which begins as a business correspondence but soon develops into an 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.