Let The Old Dead Make Room For The Young Dead: Faber Stories

Author: Milan Kundera

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  • : $7.99 AUD
  • : 9780571356904
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  • : December 2019
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Barcode 9780571356904
9780571356904

Description

A chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman, now a widow, who escaped him fifteen years earlier. Neither of them doubts that the day will end in disgust, but for one intimate moment each finds a way to overcome mortality. Written in 1969, before Milan Kundera was known to English-speaking readers, this story renders male and female characters painful equals, and prompted Philip Roth to admire its 'detached Chekhovian tenderness'.