Letters to Milena - Franz Kafka

Letters to Milena - Franz Kafka

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Full bibliographic data for Letters to Milena

Title

Letters to Milena

Authors and contributors

By (author) Franz Kafka, Volume editor Willy Haas, Translated by Tania Stern, Translated by James Stern

Physical properties

Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
Width: 128 mm
Height: 198 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight: 137 g

Audience

General/trade

Language

English

ISBN

ISBN 13: 9780749399450
ISBN 10: 0749399457

Classifications

Dewey:833.912
Nielsen BookScan Product Class:T4.5A
BISAC category code:FIC000000

Publisher

VINTAGE

Imprint name

VINTAGE

Publication date

18 May 1999

Publication City/Country

London/GB

Biographical note

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born into a Jewish family in Prague. In 1906 he received a doctorate in jurisprudence, and for many years he worked a tedious job as a civil service lawyer investigating claims at the state Worker''s Accident Insurance Institute. He never married, and published only a few slim volumes of stories during his lifetime. Meditation, a collection of sketches, appeared in 1912; The Stoker: A Fragment in 1913; The Metamorphosis in 1915; The Judgement in 1916; In the Penal Colony in 1919; and A Country Doctor in 1920. Only a few of his friends knew that Kafka was also at work on the great novels that were published after his death from tuberculosis: America, The Trial, and The Castle.

Review quote

"In his letters we have a series of self-portraits desperate and courageous, always eager and warm in feeling and, of course, by drollery. His candour is of the kind that flies alongside him in the air. He was a marvellous letter writer" -- V.S. Pritchett "Fascinating reading... [a] part of his oeuvre" Independent

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These letters, written by Kafka to his one-time lover Milena, document an extraordinary relationship and offer unusual insight into Kafka''s private world, revealing another side of the legendary literary genius.