Letters to MilenaIn no other work does Kafka reveal himself as in the Letters to Milena, which begin essentially as a business correspondence but soon develop into a passionate "letter love." Milena Jesensk was a gifted and charismatic woman of twenty three. Kafka's Czech translator, she was uniquely able to recognize his complex genius and his even more complex character. For the thirty six year old Kafka, she was "a living fire, such as I have never seen." It was to