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《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
YA This is the story of the fate of intellectuals in the Europe overrun by the Nazis. Although the account deals inevitably with sorrow and tragedy, it is singularly free of fear or self-pity, and is written with objectivity, honesty, and courage. It is also a chronicle of the indestructibility of the loving human heart. Milena Jesenska's spirit survives the loss of her homeland, her livelihood, her friends and family, and finally her life. Her friend, author Buber-Neumann, reveals her own courage and love for fellow-sufferers in the death camp Ravensbruck. Jesenska's early life, her journalistic career, and her much publicized love affair with Franz Kafka are detailed in the book. The theme of this biography is the incredible strength of the human heart, its unending desire for love and friendship, and its ability to overcome any obstacle. A fine addition to biography collections. Dortha Dee Vaughn, Port Arthur Independent School District (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
出版社周刊评论
Until now, Milena Jesenska (1896-1944) has been known outside Czechoslovakia only as the recipient of Franz Kafka's Letters to Milena. But as one soon discovers, Milena (which means ``loving one'') was an innovative journalist, author (The Way to Simplicity), underground political leader and intimate friend of creative intellectuals in Vienna and Prague. Buber-Neumann, a former German Communist who had been imprisoned in the Soviet Gulag and turned over to the Nazis in 1941, met her at Ravensbruck concentration camp, where Milena, another disillusioned ex-Communist, was also incarcerated. Milena, the heartbreaking, inspiring story of their intense four-year friendship, introduces us to two indomitable women of nobility and courage, as well as describing SS murders, tortures and mutilations by experimentation. Their deep friendship, an open protest against the humiliation imposed on them, succeeded in mitigating ``the unbearable reality.'' (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus评论
A biography of Milena Jesenska, a Czech anti-Nazi journalist who as a free-spirited young woman was briefly Franz Kafka's lover. Written by the daughter-in-law of Martin Buber, the book promises to be more moving and revelatory than it in fact is. The author and her subject met as fellow prisoners at the Ravensbruck concentration camp in 1940. During the next four years, Jesenska and Buber-Neumann developed a deep friendship that enabled the two to confront their inhuman fate. The author herself was not unfamiliar with totalitarian brutality, having earlier been incarcerated in the Russian gulag, Karaganda, and then handed over to the Nazis during the period of the Hitler-Stalin Pact. It was Jesenska's refusal to be crashed that in large measure sustained Buber-Neumann through her ordeal. In delineating this friendship, the author creates many pages that are both heartbreaking and heartwarming, by far the most successful sections in the book. Buber-Neumann is on shakier ground, however, when she recounts the events in Milena's life before their meeting in Ravensbruck. Much of the problem lies in the sketchiness of the details of life in prewar Prague, where Milena was a combination ""new woman"" and social activist. The general reader, unfamiliar with the tangle of political and artistic loyalties during this period of Slavic foment, is likely to be frustrated by the paucity of information in this section. Milena herself and those around her remain largely ciphers. The editors provide Biographical Notes at the end that identify many of the dramatis personae but do not ultimately flesh out the narrative. Nonetheless, the pages depicting camp lite and describing the emotional bonds that linked the two women make this an important testimonial. Jesenska died in Ravensbruck in 1943. Here, her friend has produced a disappointingly flawed but still moving tribute to her. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
《书目》(Booklist)书评
A poignant biography of Czech journalist Milena Jesenska who, through a brief but well-documented affair with Franz Kafka in the early 1920s, has been firmly ensconced in literary history (the English translation of Kafka's Letters to Milena was published in 1962). Buber-Neumann-who repeatedly risked her life by permitting her friendship with Milena to flourish during the years (1940-44) when both were political prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp-puts the Kafka connection into perspective: Milena is not just another of the great writer's failed lovers. The author sets the complex events and relationships of her subject's life against an evocative backdrop of twentieth-century European history, moving from the charms of pre-World War I Prague to the horrors of the Ravenbruck camp, where Milena, a disenchanted Communist, was punished for her virulent anti-Nazi writings and where she died at age 48. A stunning portrait of a troubled and charismatic woman. Biographical notes. PMS. 833'.912 (B) Kafka, Franz-Relations with women-Milena Jesenska / Jesenska, Milena / Authors-Austrian-20th century-Biography / Journalists-Czechoslovakia-Biography [CIP] 87-28718
《图书馆杂志》(Library Journal )书评
Buber-Neumann met Milena Jesenska (1896-1944) in October 1940 at Ravensbruck concentration camp. They remained intimate friends through four years of confinement until Milena's death due to illness. From long conversations with Milena, interviews later with Milena's prewar friends in Prague, Franz Kafka's Letters to Milena , and Milena's own journalism and books, Buber-Neumann has constructed a loving but candid life of this remarkable Czech woman. An iconoclast, Milena was a widely known personality in slightly off-beat artistic and literary circles. Her passions led her through numerous stormy affairs, including one with Kafka. In Buber-Neumann she has found an adept and discriminating biographer. James B. Street, Santa Cruz P.L., Cal. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.