Journalism of Milena Jesenská

A Critical Voice in Interwar Central Europe

Inbunden, Engelska, 2003

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Milena Jesenská, born in Prague in 1896, is most famous as one of Franz Kafka's great loves. Although their relationship lasted only a short time, it won the attention of the literary world with the 1952 publication of Kafka's letters to Milena. Her own letters did not survive. Later biographies showed her as a fascinating personality in her own right. In the Czech Republic, she is remembered as one of the most prominent journalists of the interwar period and as a brave one: in 1939 she was arrested for her work in the resistance after the German occupation of Bohemia and Moravia, and died in Ravensbrück concentration camp in 1944.It is estimated that Jesenská wrote well over 1,000 articles but only a handful have been translated into English. In this book her own writings provide a new perspective on her personality, as well as the changes in Central Europe between the two world wars as these were perceived by a woman of letters. The articles in this volume cover a wide range of topics, including her perceptions of Kafka, her understanding of social and cultural changes during this period, the threat of Nazism, and the plight of the Jews in the 1930s.

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Utgivningsdatum2003-03-20
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt494 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor240
FörlagBerghahn Books, Incorporated
ISBN9781571815606

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AcknowledgementsA Note on the TextIntroductionIllustrationsI. Articles from Tribuna, 1920–1922What People Eat in ViennaThe New Big-City TypeBathing CostumesThe New Big-City Type IIThe CaféThe Letters of Eminent PeopleShop-WindowsThe Household and OverallsDance over the AbyssChildrenMy FriendMysterious RedemptionMelancholy in the RainSuperficial Small Talk about a Serious SubjectII. Articles from Národní listy and Lidové noviny, 1922–1929On the Psychology of the New SocietyDevil at the HearthThe Bath, the Body and EleganceA Few Old-Fashioned Comments About Women’s EmancipationA Theme that has Nothing to do with FashionA Beautiful WomanFrom One Person to AnotherThe Curse of Outstanding QualitiesFor Whom Do We Write About Fashion in the Newspapers?BabyA Cry for IndependenceCivilised Woman?III. Articles from Pˇrítomnost, 1938–1939Judge Lynch in EuropeThere will be no AnschlussHundreds of Thousands Looking for No-Man’s-LandBeyond Our StrengthWhat Remains of the Communist Party?Married Women out of WorkIn No-Man’s-LandGood Advice is Better than GoldPrague, the Morning of 15 March 1939The Art of Standing StillAm I, First and Foremost, Czech?Soldaten wohnen auf den Kanonen…BibliographyIndex