A retelling of Franz Kafka · 1952

Letters to Milena

“In 1920, ill with tuberculosis in an Italian spa town, Franz Kafka began writing to his young Czech translator, Milena Jesenská, unhappily married in Vienna. For a few months they loved each other in letters; then Kafka's fear ended it. This is the story of that correspondence.”

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Contents4 episodes · ~8 min

  1. 1Meran (April–June 1920)Free
  2. 2Vienna and Gmünd (June–August 1920)🔒
  3. 3Fear and Parting (September 1920–1921)🔒
  4. 4Ghosts (1922–1924)🔒