"The voice of Kafka in
Letters to Milena is more personal, more pure, and more painful than in his fiction: a testimony to human existence and to our eternal wait for the impossible. [This is] a marvelous new edition of a classic text." –Jan Kott
"An extraordinary document–touching, horrifying, brilliant, sickly, heartbreaking, and infinitely convoluted . . . It reveals him most clearly (which is relative, and Kafka remains mystifying enough), and it is–aside from the beauty of the letters themselves–the most significant key we have for a reading of the author's novels and short stories." –
The New York Times