Let the Old Dead Make Room for the New Dead
Milan Kundera
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'.
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Year:
2019
Publisher:
Faber Stories
Language:
english
Pages:
48
ISBN 10:
0571356907
ISBN 13:
9780571356904
Series:
Faber Stories
File:
EPUB, 149 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2019