Letters to Milena
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 First edition | |
| Author | Franz Kafka |
|---|---|
| Original title | Briefe an Milena |
| Translator | Tania and James Stern (1st edition); Philip Boehm (2nd edition) |
| Language | German |
| Genre | Letters |
| Publisher | Schocken Books |
Publication date | 1952 (1st), 1986 (2nd) |
Published in English | 1953 (1st), 1990 (2nd) |
| Media type | Print, hard and paperback |
| Pages | 298 p. |
| ISBN | 0-8052-0885-2 |
| OCLC | 19814322 |
| 833/.912 B 19 | |
| LC Class | PT2621.A26 Z48613 1990 |
Letters to Milena is a book collecting some of Franz Kafka's letters to Milena Jesenská from 1920 to 1923. The English translation of the letters states, "Whereas Kafka generally wrote to Milena in German, most of her letters were in her mother tongue" of Czech (p. xvii).
The letters were originally published in German in 1952 as Briefe an Milena, edited by Willy Haas, who deleted some passages that he thought might hurt people who were still living at the time. The collection was first published in English by Schocken Books in 1953, translated by Tania and James Stern. A new German edition, restoring the passages Haas had deleted, was published in 1983, followed by a new English translation by Philip Boehm in 1990. This edition includes some of Milena's letters to Max Brod, as well as four essays she wrote and her obituary for Kafka.
