Description
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 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.
Author: Milan Kundera, Aaron Asher
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 07/25/2000
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.12h x 5.34w x 1.04d
ISBN13: 9780060997021
ISBN10: 0060997028
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary