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Kafka Franz: Pisma Mileni

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Pisma Mileni

Kafka Franz

Summary

Franz Kafka: Letters to Milena

Franz Kafka met and befriended Milena while translating his short prose into Czech. The transition from a friendly atmosphere of personal and business understanding to a passionate relationship can be clearly read from these letters of Kafka from Merano in 1920, where he was undergoing treatment. In them, he "opens his heart and soul", and it was similar with the answers, so everything resulted in an epistolary love novel, filled with longing, but also anxiety. This passionate correspondence is thematically, symbolically, creatively, by all criteria... - excellent literature, often epigrammatically formulated, but nothing less was to be expected from one of the greatest and most influential writers in history. For him, as he wrote, "writing letters means exposing yourself to the spirits, which they can't wait for." Written kisses never reach their destination, but spirits drink them on the way.«
Milena Jesenska came from an old Prague family, one of those that could be called the "true nobility" of Czechoslovakia. She was not a seductress, nor did she want to seduce a man whom she respected as a writer and whose genius she understood long before most. After numerous exchanged letters, sometimes several a day, and two meetings, at the time when he started "spitting blood", they parted by agreement, because Milena, despite the "bad marriage", still "loved her husband too much to leave him". Although mostly "literate" and incompletely realized, it was perhaps the greatest, and certainly the most intriguing, of Kafka's romances. This literary work, i.e. bound letters, is a unique, exceptional testimony to that.

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Additional information

  • Author: Kafka Franz
  • Publisher: Šareni dućan
  • Year of publication:2025
  • Place of publication:Koprivnica
  • Pages:245
  • Dimensions:13x20.5 cm
  • Script:Latinica
  • Condition:Nova knjiga
  • Binding:Tvrdi

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