by Margarete Buber-Neumann · SEUIL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020090315
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Milena is a biography written by Margarete Buber-Neumann that tells the life of Milena Jesenská, a Czech journalist and writer known for her relationship with Franz Kafka. The book explores Milena's life, her work, her relationships, and her tragic fate during World War II. Through Buber-Neumann's narrative, an intimate view of an exceptional woman and her time is offered.
Margarete Buber-Neumann was a German writer. As a senior Communist Party of Germany member and Gulag survivor, she was turned into a staunch anti-communist. She wrote the famous memoir Under Two Dictators, which begins with her arrest in Moscow during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, followed by her imprisonment as a political prisoner in both the Soviet Gulag and the Nazi concentration camp system, after she was handed over by the NKVD to the Gestapo during World War II.
