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263 pages • first pub 1973 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780571197774
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Publication date: Not specified
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Kundera 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, rev...
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263 pages • first pub 1973 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780571197774
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Publication date: Not specified
Description
Kundera 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, rev...