Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead
Faber Stories
By Milan Kundera
Translated by Suzanne Rappaport
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'.
- ISBN:
- 9780571356904
- Format:
- Paperback / softback
- Pages:
- 48
- Published:
- Publisher:
- Faber & Faber
- Imprint:
- Faber & Faber
- Weight:
- 38 g