{"product_id":"letters-to-milena-franz-kafka-9780805212679","title":"Letters to Milena","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe passionate but doomed epistolary love affair between a Czech translator and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Metamorphosis\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Trial. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Extraordinary...touching, horrifying, brilliant, sickly, [and] heartbreaking.... The most significant key we have for a reading of the author's novels and short stories.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn no other work does Franz Kafka reveal himself as in Letters to Milena, which begins as a business correspondence but soon develops into an epistolary love affair. Kafka's Czech translator, Milena Jesenská, was a gifted and charismatic twenty-three-year-old who was uniquely able to recognize Kafka's complex genius and his even more complex character. For thirty-six-year-old Kafka, she was \"a living fire, such as I have never seen.\" It was to Milena that he revealed his most intimate self and, eventually, entrusted his diaries for safekeeping.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Franz Kafka\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0805212671\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780805212679\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Schocken Books Inc\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/03\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.90d","brand":"Franz Kafka","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44051197526271,"sku":"9780805212679","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f7aa4eec-d0c7-44cd-ba3b-2587ac7fbffd.jpg?v=1685011665","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/letters-to-milena-franz-kafka-9780805212679","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}