{"product_id":"letters-to-milena-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.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":62342100091267,"sku":"9780805212679","price":19.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9780805212679.jpg?v=1786172205","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/letters-to-milena-9780805212679","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}