{"product_id":"letter-to-milena","title":"Letters to Milena","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'You are the knife I turn inside myself'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFranz 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 writerKafka 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhile at times Milena's 'genius for living' gave Kafka new life, it ultimately exhausted him, and their relationship was to last little over two years. In 1924 Kafka died in a sanatorium near Vienna, and Milena died in 1944 at the hands of the Nazis, leaving these letters as a moving record of their relationship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublished: UK, 2018\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Vintage Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePages: 192 \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN 13: 9781784879211\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN 10: 1784879215\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Franz Kafka","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45098600956170,"sku":"","price":13.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9781784874001.jpg?v=1705496795","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/letter-to-milena","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}