Let the Old Dead Make Room for the New Dead

Download or read book Let the Old Dead Make Room for the New Dead written by Milan Kundera and published by Faber Stories. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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'.