What happened to the letters of Milena Jesenská, journalist and Czech translator of Franz Kafka? We know that after the writer’s death, she asked Max Brod, executor and friend of Kafka, to recover her half of this passionate correspondence and burn it, judging that there was “nothing important” there. And if a little of Milena’s voice survives through Kafka’s letters, the enigma remains. Is this the “erasure” of a female voice? With The Milena Experienceseeking “an offbeat path of exploration of fiction and analysis”, somewhere between the essay and the notebook, Danielle Dussault (The bridges of Prague, Give wings) tries to fill the empty spaces of this story. She mixes her own experience, remembers love letters that she herself burned in her youth, while questioning this “haunting absence” in the streets of Prague. A sincere impressionistic face-to-face that nevertheless marks time a little.
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