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The Resource Letters to Milena, Franz Kafka ; translated and with an introduction by Philip Boehm

Letters to Milena, Franz Kafka ; translated and with an introduction by Philip Boehm

Label
Letters to Milena
Title
Letters to Milena
Statement of responsibility
Franz Kafka ; translated and with an introduction by Philip Boehm
Creator
Contributor
Author
Translator
Subject
Genre
Language
  • eng
  • ger
  • eng
Summary
In no other work does Franz Kafka reveal himself as in Letters to Milena, which begins as a business correspondence but soon develops into a passionate but doomed 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
Member of
Biography type
autobiography
Cataloging source
YDXCP
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1883-1924
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Kafka, Franz
Dewey number
833/.912
Illustrations
plates
Index
no index present
Literary form
non fiction
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
1883-1924
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Boehm, Philip
  • Kafka, Franz
Series statement
The Schocken Kafka library
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Kafka, Franz
  • Jesenská, Milena
  • Authors, Austrian
  • Journalists
  • Jesenská, Milena
  • Kafka, Franz
  • Authors, Austrian
  • Journalists
  • Czechoslovakia
Label
Letters to Milena, Franz Kafka ; translated and with an introduction by Philip Boehm
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Note
  • Originally published in German in a different form as Briefe an Milena by S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt, in 1952. This edition is based on the enlarged and revised German edition, edited by Jürgen Born and Michael Müller, published by S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt and Main
  • Translation of: Briefe an Milena
  • Includes appendices and notes
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
ocn898909729
Dimensions
21 cm.
Edition
Second American paperback edition.
Extent
xviii, 293 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates
Isbn
9780805212679
Lccn
2016297237
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)898909729
Label
Letters to Milena, Franz Kafka ; translated and with an introduction by Philip Boehm
Publication
Copyright
Note
  • Originally published in German in a different form as Briefe an Milena by S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt, in 1952. This edition is based on the enlarged and revised German edition, edited by Jürgen Born and Michael Müller, published by S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt and Main
  • Translation of: Briefe an Milena
  • Includes appendices and notes
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
ocn898909729
Dimensions
21 cm.
Edition
Second American paperback edition.
Extent
xviii, 293 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates
Isbn
9780805212679
Lccn
2016297237
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)898909729

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