Kafka, Love and Courage : The Life of Milena Jesenska

by Hockaday, Mary

First American Edition (stated)

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Book desription: Woodstock: Overlook Press, 1997. FIRST PRINTING of the First American Edition (stated). Interesting biography of Kafka's 'muse', a radical, independent woman and journalist of Prague, who experimented with drugs and sex, practiced Bohemianism, inhabited cafe society, shoplifted, had numerous passionate friendships with other women, much more, reflecting both on Jesenska and Kafka as well as on European society of their period. Hardcover with dust jacket, 255pp., book shows odd thin scrape mark to pagination ends. A nice copy.. ISBN: 0-87951-751-4. First American Edition (stated). Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. European History, Biography, Jesenska Milena, Franz Kafka, Writers, Writing, LIterature, Society, Bohemians, Bohemianism, Drugs, Sex, Sexuality, Lesbians, Homosexuals, Homosexuality, Women, Gender Issues, Feminism, Prague, Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic, Czechs, Shoplifting, Journalism, Journalists, Radicals, Socialists, Socialism.

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