Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka Paul Rayment is on the

Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg

With his best friend and squire

of stories within stories

The Upanishads do not concern themselves with mere theories

Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka Paul Rayment is on theKafka first made the acquaintance of Milena Jesenska in 1920 when she was translating his early short prose into Czech, and their relationship quickly developed into a deep attachment. Such was his feeling for her that Kafka showed her his diaries and, in doing so, laid bare his heart and his conscience. While at times Milena's 'genius for living' gave Kafka new life, it ultimately exhausted him, and their relationship was to last little over two