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"It seems to me that the novel is only half-successful because it looks too much as if Kundera is shooting a clumsy fish in a very small barrel. And it is not a very convincing rebuttal of the heroics of Byron and Shelley or the poetic mind in general. It is a particularizing of an isolated case of perversity--metrical feet shod with jackboots....It is, among other things, a novel of tremendous elasticity, stretching in all directions as it moves forward; it is also very funny."Milan Kundera is the author of 'Life Is Elsewhere' with ISBN 9780571197774 and ISBN 0571197779.
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