Letters to Milena (Annotated)

Letters to Milena gathers Franz Kafka's correspondence with Milena Jesenská, the Czech journalist and translator who first rendered his work into Czech and became the recipient of one of modern literature's most searching epistolary confessions. Written between 1920 and 1923, these letters move between tenderness, metaphysical anxiety, self-scrutiny, illness, and the impossibility of union. Their ...