Name: Briefe an Milena
Rating: 3.858450704225352 (71 reviews)

Michael Müller

Jürgen Born

Franz Kafka

Briefe an Milena

Letters to Milena

An absolute shame that we do not have Milena's letters to Kafka (that is, the originals). I know it is me - I have been in a bit of a weird headspace - but without them, the compilation read a little creepy. I know she kept the letters and gave them for publishing, I know her marriage was unhappy, etc. etc. - and yet!

Philip Boehm

A new translation of Kafka's letters to his Czech translator, Milena Jesenska, includes materials previously unpublished as well as some of her letters and essays

I feel like Kafka wrote these letters at his most tender and tormented—like he’s in love, on the verge of a breakdown, or both—no in-between. 

Rien

now i really wish we could get Milena’s side of the story.

nadyra

Laura Rodrigues de Pina

Acho que poucas leituras na minha vida serão tão prazeirosas e dolorosas na minha vida, nunca havia experimentado sentimento tão agridoce a me identificar nas paginas de um livro.

Franz Kafka's Letters to Milena are an opportunity to understand the author behind some well known works. He has a rather romantic, philosophical way of writing. The greatest surprise was the ending, which provided some of Milena's works. Her essay on marriage contains a modern, unconventional view of this subject for its time. It was a pleasure to read this book. 

Briefe an Milena

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