{"product_id":"letters-to-milena-discover-franz-kafka-s-love-letters-the-surprise-tiktok-sensation","title":"Letters to Milena : Discover Franz Kafka’s love letters – the surprise TikTok sensation!","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Kafka, Franz \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 06\/12\/2018,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 272 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781784874001,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'You are the knife I turn inside myself'Franz 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\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43105030471724,"sku":"9781784874001","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781784874001.jpg?v=1713023708","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/letters-to-milena-discover-franz-kafka-s-love-letters-the-surprise-tiktok-sensation","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}