"I will say no more about this lacerating book except to urge it upon all who care about literature in our difficult era." -- Boston Globe "A sly and merciless lampoon of revolutionary romanticism... Kundera commits some of the funniest literary savaging since Evelyn Waugh polished off Dickens in A Handful of Dust."-- Time Milan Kundera initially intended to call this novel The Lyrical Age. The lyrical age, according to him, 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 poet. His mother made him a 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.
Diana Dixon has a lot going on this summer: rehearsing for a ballroom dance competition, juggling two jobs, dealing with an ex-boyfriend who won't quit . . . Yet she still has the energy to put Sha...
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