Who Knew that Kafka had Such an Amazing Taste in Women? Milena is Pretty Unforgettable.(About the Book “Milena” by Margarete Buber-Neumann, Schocken Books, USA, 1988

Watch video:Mikhail Rudy-Letters to MIlena The author met and fell in love with Milena Jesenska, the Wild Cild of Prague, who helped to try and help as many of other inmates of the Ravensbruck concentration camp (near Vienna) to survive as possible, two truly remarkable women. The cover of this book is shown here as…

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About the Meaning of the Doll (“Blessed be Providence Which has Given to Each his Toy: the Doll to the Child, the Child to the Woman, the Woman to the Man, the Man to the Devil!” Victor Hugo)

That is who has read “The Miserables” by Victor Hugo that remembers the magnificent description made on the girl on en-counting the toy-shop: “…she could not refrain from lifting her eyes to that wonderful doll, towards the lady, as she called it. The poor child paused in amazement. She had not yet beheld that doll close to….

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“Amerika: The Missing Person” by F. Kafka, translated by M. Harman, Schocken Books, New York, 2008.

Watch movie based on this book:Klassenverhaltnisse (Class Relations, Jean-Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet,Part 1/12) This is an important examination of immigrant life in America made by Franz Kafaka although he himself never visited America in his life. The story he put in writing was about the young Karl Rossman who, after an incident involving a housemaid,…

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