Kafka first made the acquaintance of milena jesenska in 1920 when she was translating his early short prose into czech, and 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 milena, for her part, was passionate and intrepid, cool and intelligent in her decisions but reckless when her emotions were involved kafka once described her as living her life so intensely down to such depths if she did suffer through him, it was part of her great appetite for life however while at times milenas genius for living gave kafka new life, it ultimately exhausted him, and their relationship was to last little over two years kafka died in 1944 at the hands of the nazis - these letters are a moving record of their relationship
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Language: English Paperback: 272 pages ISBN-10: 9781784874001 ISBN-13: 9781784874001 Genre: Popular Fiction Shipping Weight: 31 grams Condition: New
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