Milena: The Tragic Story of Kafka's Great Love
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (563 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1628723297 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Would Franz Kafka have been surprised at Milena's fate?" according to James Connelly. A fine remembrance of Milena Jesenska, the Czech writer who was an intimate of Franz Kafka. Ironically, she ended up and died in Germany's Ravensbrück Konzentrationslager -- the sort of place perhaps implicit in Kafka's vision of the arbitrary and brutal exercise of state power. Margarete Buber-Neumann became her friend in the KZ/KL. Buber-Neumann was a German Communist who fled Nazism to the Soviet Union. She was arrested and sentenced to forced labor in Siberia. Then
Milena took an early stand against Hitler, which she pursued with vigor after the Nazis came to power.As the head of a politically committed newspaper targeted by the Nazis, Milena was arrested in 1939 and sent to one of Hitler’s death camps, Ravensbrück. Thus it fell to Buber-Neumann to tell Milena’s story. There she met Margarete Buber-Neumann, a fellow political prisoner, also a writer and opponent of Nazism. This book portrays a unique and remarkable friendship between the two women, a bond that helped them endure. By artfully and discreetly interweaving images of Ravensbrück with episodes from Milena’s life, the author avoids repeating the already well-documented accounts of concentration camps. A p
Buber-Neumann, a former German Communist who had been imprisoned in the Soviet Gulag and turned over to the Nazis in 1941, met her at Ravensbruck concentration camp, where Milena, another disillusioned ex-Communist, was also incarcerated. Milena, the heartbreaking, inspiring story of their intense four-year friendship, introduces us to two indomitable women of nobility and courage, as well as describing SS murders, tortures and mutilations by experimentation. From Publishers Weekly Until now, Milen