Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead

Faber Stories

By:

Milan Kundera

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Faber Stories

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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'.

Author Biography:

The French-Czech novelist Milan Kundera was born in the Czech Republic and has lived in France since 1975. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed and bestselling novels The Joke, Life is Elsewhere, The Farewell Waltz, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Immortality, and the short story collection Laughable Loves - all originally in Czech. His more recent novels, Slowness, Identity, and Ignorance,as well as his nonfiction works, The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain, and Encounter, were originally written in French.

Release date Australia

October 17th, 2019

Author

Milan Kundera

Series

Faber Stories

Contributor

Translated by Suzanne Rappaport

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Main

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Dimensions

111x160x3

ISBN-13

9780571356904

Product ID

30509914

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