Jesenska Milena: Put prema jednostavnosti

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Author: Jesenska Milena

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Author: Jesenska Milena
Publisher: Šareni dućan
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Code: 56309

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Put prema jednostavnosti

Jesenska Milena

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Milena Jesenska: The Way to Simplicity

I really don't understand why it is considered that making good shoes is less of an art than, say, giving a good speech in parliament... Aren't shoes just as necessary as laws? Isn't every work honorable, necessary and wonderful when it is done honorably, usefully and wonderfully?" This is how the Czech journalist, writer and translator Milena Jesenská thought and wrote about a hundred years ago. Today, she is better known in literary and wider cultural circles as Kafka's friend and the addressee of his Letters to Milena, while her texts, although excellent, are unfairly somewhat forgotten. With the caveat that "simplicity is not at all simple", she compiled the book Path to Simplicity from her newspaper columns, actually deeply human and cultured essays, written in a special style on the border of excellent journalistic expression and high-quality literary treatment.
She translated Broch, Werfel, Frank, Kafka... and from her initial interest in Kafka's work, an intimate relationship was born. Of Kafka's companions, she was intellectually closest to him, they corresponded intensively, and in this book she describes him as "the best and most unusual man she ever met... who was too good for this world". Although she remained in Kafka's shadow, Milena Jesenská will be remembered because she "spread around her an ineffable 'something'"; she was an emancipated woman, a personality, an intellectual whose bold ideas and engaged texts created and articulated the face and viewpoints, and not only of society at that time

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