Tell me on Tuesday

"Tell me on Tuesday", wrote Franz Kafka in a letter to Milena Jesenská. He planned to visit her on Tuesday, stopping in Vienna on the way to Prague. "It would be most sensible to tell you today where I would like to wait for you, but I would suffocate till we met.... Is there in the world, Milena, as much patience as is necessary for me? Tell me on Tuesday."
Kafka´s longing to see Milena again, before he was able to spend four days with her in Vienna, was marked by delay, and a transition to written form in letters...

Orig. Title
Sag es mir Dienstag
Year
2007
Country
Austria
Duration
26 min
Category
Essay
Orig. Language
German
Subtitles
English, french
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