Welcome to Litsy!

The book tells the story of Jaromil and his evolution to being a poet and a human. But its nothing like The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Jaromil is heavily flawed and wrong in obvious ways. Kundera can be said to have shown exceptional courage in this honest portrayal of an artist.

#promiscuous #heatofjuly
Not read the book - just gone for a quote!
Such a judgemental word isn‘t it!?

“When the poet‘s mother wondered where the poet had been conceived, there were only three possibilities to consider: a park bench one night, the apartment of a friend of the poet‘s father one afternoon, a romantic spot outside Prague late one morning.”
#16of365 #bookcover #openingline #notpiratesockmonkey