Letters To Milena

Synopsis

Kafka first made the acquaintance of milena jesenska in 1920 when she was translating his early short prose into czech, and 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. Milena, for her part, was passionate and intrepid, cool and intelligent in her decisions but reckless when her emotions were involved. Kafka once described her as living her life 'so intensely down to such depths'. If she did suffer through him, it was part of her great appetite for life.