Franz Kafka Letters to Milena. An Immortal Love Story

In this video, I'm reading and discussing Kafka's letter to Milena. This letter is a fantastic example of how to communicate difficult ideas to someone you care about.

If you're interested in how to communicate difficult ideas effectively, then be sure to watch this video! Kafka's letter to Milena is a fantastic example of how to communicate difficult ideas to someone you care about. By reading and discussing this letter, you'll learn some valuable techniques for communicating with people who are important to you.
In this video, we're translating Kafka's famous letter to Milena into simple English.

This letter, famously translated by Franz Kafka into German, is a beautiful and poignant reflection on love and loss. If you're interested in reading or learning more about Kafka's work, this is the video for you!

In this letter, Kafka tells his beloved Milena how much he loves her and how much he misses her. He also shares with her his thoughts about their relationship and how it has changed since they last saw each other.

When Milena Jesenskà , a Czech journalist and writer asked Franz Kafka for permission to translate his short story The Stoker (later published as the first chapter of Amerika) into Czech, she would not just become Kafka’s first translator, but also the addressee of a flood of enthralling and increasingly passionate letters - 149 letters and postcards, 140 written during 10 months, sometimes several times a day, from March to December 1920, the last ones between 1921 and 1923, a few months before Kafka’s death from TB on 24th June 1924 . Kafka’s letters, entrusted by Milena to Willy Haas, a common acquaintance, subsisted, unlike Milena’s letters to Kafka, which are presumed lost.

Soon the correspondence alters into an consuming epistolary relationship when it deepens from a sharing of a profound mutual empathy (Her poverty. The unfaithfulness of her husband. Her loneliness. His fear. His illness. His fiancée), into a mutual baring of the soul and a long distance intimacy which brings Kafka despair, torment, bliss, sleeplessness as well as uttermost happiness:

'In their entirety as well as in almost every line, your letters are the most beautiful thing that ever happened to me.'

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I don’t feel that these particular selections, coupled with the robot voice, were at all moving or conveyed the best aspects of his letters to Milena.