Letters to MilenaA window into the desires and hopes of the twentieth century's most prophetic and important writer. You are the knife I turn inside myself Letters to Milena contains Franz Kafka's letters to his one time muse, Milena Jesenska, providing an intimate window into the desires and hopes of the twentieth century's most prophetic and important writer. Kafka first made the acquaintance of Milena Jesenska in 1920 when she was translating his early short prose