Writing letters means exposing oneself to the ghosts that eagerly await. Written kisses do not reach their destination but are consumed by the ghosts along the way. At the beginning of the year 1920, Franz Kafka met Milena. A very intimate friendship developed between her and Kafka. Kafka's diaries have already shown us the true depth of this friendship. However, we only sense there what is revealed here in these letters published for the first time: a love story, an orgy of despair, bliss, self-mutilation, and self-degradation. In its ruthless revelation of human greatness and weakness, passion and cowardice, this volume can only be compared to Rousseau's Confessions as a document of life.