by Franz Kafka · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788491044444
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"Letters to Milena" is a compilation of the correspondence that Franz Kafka directed to Milena Jesenská between 1920 and 1922. Through these letters, an epistolary love story is revealed, intense and distant, which shows the sensitivity and emotional intimacy of the author of "The Metamorphosis". This edition, based on the German version of 1983, includes suppressed passages, a more precise chronology, and the obituary that Milena wrote upon Kafka's death, as well as letters addressed to Max Brod.
Franz Kafka was a German-language Jewish Czech writer and novelist born in Prague, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature, his works fuse elements of realism and the fantastique, and typically feature isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surreal predicaments and incomprehensible bureaucratic powers. The term Kafkaesque has entered the lexicon to describe situations like those depicted in his writings. His best-known works include the novella The Metamorphosis (1915) and the novels The Trial (1924) and The Castle (1926). He is also celebrated for his brief fables and aphorisms, which frequently incorporated comedic elements alongside the darker themes of his longer works. His work has widely influenced artists, philosophers, composers, filmmakers, literary historians, religious scholars, and cultural theorists.
