The Journalism of Milena Jesenska,9781571815606

The Journalism of Milena Jesenska

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9781571815606
ISBN10: 1571815600
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-02-01
Publisher(s): Berghahn Books
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Summary

Milena Jesenska, 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 Ravensbruck concentration camp in 1944.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii
A Note on the Text viii
Introduction 1(41)
Illustrations 42(7)
I. Articles from Tribuna, 1920-1922
What People Eat in Vienna
49(4)
The New Big-City Type
53(4)
Bathing Costumes
57(3)
The New Big-City Type II
60(4)
The Cafe
64(3)
The Letters of Eminent People
67(3)
Shop-Windows
70(3)
The Household and Overalls
73(3)
Dance over the Abyss
76(5)
Children
81(5)
My Friend
86(5)
Mysterious Redemption
91(4)
Melancholy in the Rain
95(3)
Superficial Small Talk about a Serious Subject
98(5)
II. Articles from Narodni listy and Lidove noviny, 1922-1929
On the Psychology of the New Society
103(4)
Devil at the Hearth
107(5)
The Bath, the Body and Elegance
112(3)
A Few Old-Fashioned Comments About Women's
115(5)
Emancipation
A Theme that has Nothing to do with Fashion
120(3)
A Beautiful Woman
123(3)
From One Person to Another
126(4)
The Curse of Outstanding Qualities
130(4)
For Whom Do We Write About Fashion in the Newspapers?
134(4)
Baby
138(3)
A Cry for Independence
141(3)
Civilised Woman?
144(5)
III. Articles from Pritomnost, 1938-1939
Judge Lynch in Europe
149(8)
There will be no Anschluss
157(10)
Hundreds of Thousands Looking for No-Man's-Land
167(11)
Beyond Our Strength
178(5)
What Remains of the Communist Party?
183(5)
Married Women out of Work
188(5)
In No-Man's-Land
193(5)
Good Advice is Better than Gold
198(7)
Prague, the Morning of 15 March 1939
205(5)
The Art of Standing Still
210(4)
Am I, First and Foremost, Czech?
214(4)
Soldaten wohnen auf den Kanonen
218(7)
Bibliography 225(4)
Index 229

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