- Letters to Milena
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name = Letters to Milena
title_orig = "Briefe an Milena"
translator = Tania and James Stern (1st edition); Philip Boehm (2nd edition)
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author =Franz Kafka
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country =United States
language = German
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genre = Letters
publisher =Schocken Books
release_date = 1952 (1st), 1986 (2nd)
english_release_date = 1953 (1st), 1990 (2nd)
media_type = Print,Hardcover ;Paperback
pages = 298 p.
isbn = 0-8052-0885-2
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followed_by ="Letters to Milena" is a book collecting some of
Franz Kafka 's letters toMilena Jesenská from 1920 to 1923.Publication history
The letters were originally published in German in 1952 as "Briefe an Milena", edited by
Willy Haas , who decided to delete certain passages which he thought might hurt people who were still alive at the time. The collection was first published in English bySchocken Books in 1953, translated by Tania and James Stern. A new German edition, restoring the passages Haas had deleted, was published in 1986, followed by a new English translation byPhilip Boehm in 1990. This edition includes some of Milena's letters toMax Brod , as well as four essays by her and an obituary for Kafka.Quote
The easy possibility of writing letters must have brought wrack and ruin to the souls of the world. Writing Letters is actually an intercourse with ghosts, and by no means just the ghost of the addressee but also with one's own ghost, which secretly evolves inside the letter one is writing.
References
* Kafka, Franz. "Letters to Milena". Translated by Philip Boehm,
New York : Schocken Books, 1990. ISBN 0805208852
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