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Letters-to-Milena-by-Franz-Kafka In-no-other-work-does-Kafka-reveal-himself-as-in-the Letters-to-Milena,-which-begin-essentially-as-a-business-correspondence-but-soon-develop-into-a-passionate-“letter-love.”-Milena-Jesenská-was-a-gifted-and-charismatic-woman-of-twenty-three.-Kafka’s-Czech-translator,-she-was-uniquely-able-to-recognize-his-complex-genius-and-his-even-more-complex-character.-For-the-thirty-six-year-old-Kafka,-she-was-“a-living-fire,-such-as-I-have-never-seen.”-It-was-to-her-that-he-revealed-his-most-intimate-self.-It-was-to-her-that,-after-the-end-of-the-affair,-he-entrusted-the-safekeeping-of-his-diaries.Newly-translated,-revised,-and-expanded,-this-edition-contains-material-previously-omitted-because-of-its-extreme-sensitivity.-Also-included-for-the-first-time-are-letters-and-essays-by-Milena-Jesenská,-herself-a-talented-writer-as-well-as-the-recipient-of-these-documents-of-Kafka’s-love,-anxiety,-and-despair.
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