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Widely known for her (largely epistolary) romance with Franz Kafka and as the addressee of his Letters to Milena, Milena Jesenska was a prominent journalist and translator, one of the most famous women in 1930s Prague. This intimate biography by her daughter charts her stormy and colorful life from her rebellious childhood through her literary and political activities to her concentration camp imprisonment by the Nazis.



Kafka's Milena was rushed into publication in Prague in 1969, just after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. This edition includes translations of several new letters and articles by Jesenska, including her obituary of Kafka and a wrenching letter from prison to her daughter.
ISBN-13

9780810110892

ISBN-10

081011089X

Weight

0.68 Pounds

Dimensions

5.50 x 0.70 x 8.50 In

List Price

$21.95

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

206 pages

Publisher

Northwestern University Press

Published On

1993-05-11


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