{"product_id":"letters-to-milena","title":"Letters To Milena","description":"\u003cp\u003e'You are the knife I turn inside myself'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFranz Kafka's letters to his one-time muse, Milena Jesenska - an intimate window into the desires and hopes of the twentieth-century's most prophetic and important writer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKafka first made the acquaintance of Milena Jesenska in 1920 when she was translating his early short prose into Czech. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhile at times Milena's 'genius for living' gave Kafka new life, it ultimately exhausted him, and their relationship was to last little over two years. In 1924 Kafka died in a sanatorium near Vienna, and Milena died in 1944 at the hands of the Nazis, leaving these letters as a moving record of their relationship.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45073898307763,"sku":"9781784874001","price":480.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/41MscAlOU4L.jpg?v=1762882719","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/letters-to-milena","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}