Letters to Milena
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.
Review
"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
About the Author
Podrobnosti
| Autor |
Franz Kafka |
|---|---|
| Vydavatel |
Schocken Books |
| Jazyk | anglicky |
| Vazba | měkká |
| Počet stran | 320 |
| Formát | 13 × 20 cm |
| EAN | 9780805212679 |
| Rok vydání | 2015 |
| Edice |
Biografie, memoáry, osobnosti Klasická beletrie Překladová beletrie Vztahy, romantika, rodina |
Autor
Franz Kafka
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