The author initially intended to call this novel _The Lyrical Age_. The lyrical age, according to Kundera, is youth, and this novel, above all, is an epic of adolescence; an ironic epic that tenderly erodes sacrosanct values: childhood, motherhood, revolution, and even poetry. Jaromil is in fact a p
The Good Life Elsewhere
β Scribed by Vladimir Lorchenkov
- Publisher
- New Vessel Press
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 173 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1939931002
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
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