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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 inContinue
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lrb published on Sun, 5 Sep 2010
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People in a Trap
Extraordinary Czech novels, written in the late Sixties, keep coming from Western publishers. Ludvik Vaculík’s The Axe and then The Guinea Pigs were translated during the last few years; Milan Kundera’s The Joke was published in 1969, two years after ... (read full critics)
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- English Books
- Paperback 311 Pages
- Edition: New Ed
- ISBN-10: 0571197779
- ISBN-13: 9780571197774
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- Pub date: Aug 01, 2000
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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| 9780571197774 | Paperback | $22.01 | $9.88 | The Book Depository |
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Revolution, literature and love, and the roads and side-roads which join them together, are concerns of Kundera and Klima, whose name is a further concern of Kundera’s, and is used for the uxorious philanderer of his novel The Farewell Party. With th ... (read full critics)