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The author intially intended to call this noel, 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 scarosanct values: childhood, motherhood, revolution, and even poetry. Jaromil is in fact a poet. His mother made hima poet and accompanies him (figuratively) to his love bed and (literally) to his deathbed. A ridiculous and touching character, horrifying and totally innocent ("innocence with its bloody smile"!), Jaromil is at the same time a true poet. He's no creep, he's Rimbaud. Rimbaud entrapped by the communist revolution, entrapped in a somber farce.
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- Paperback 311 Pages
- Edition: New Ed
- ISBN-10: 0571197779
- ISBN-13: 9780571197774
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- Pub date: Aug 01, 2000
- Dimensions: 20 cm x 13 cm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover and Others

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