Letters to milena

By:

Kafka, Franz

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London Penguin Random House 2018Description: 249pISBN:

9781784874001

Subject(s):

Diaries Letters Journals

DDC classification:

808.83 KAF

Summary: 'You are the knife I turn inside myself' Franz Kafka's letters to his one-time muse, Milena Jesenska - an intimate window into the desires and hopes of the twentieth-century's most prophetic and important writer Kafka first made the acquaintance of Milena Jesenska in 1920 when she was translating his early short prose into Czech. 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.

List(s) this item appears in: New Arrivals May 2026

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Gandhi Smriti Library	808.83 KAF (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out to Smritirekha Sahu (CON00140)	2026-05-28	186016

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'You are the knife I turn inside myself'

Franz Kafka's letters to his one-time muse, Milena Jesenska - an intimate window into the desires and hopes of the twentieth-century's most prophetic and important writer

Kafka first made the acquaintance of Milena Jesenska in 1920 when she was translating his early short prose into Czech. 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.

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