Krima Works. Short Story Volume (Part 1): Short Story Volume

Author: Ivan Klíma
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: Read Kundera yesterday, read Klíma today. Klíma, alongside Havel and Kundera, is known as the "Triple Horsepower" of the Czech literary scene. In recent years, his international reputation has been soaring, with many critics believing his literary achievements and social prestige surpass those of Kundera. My First Love: Four stories like symphonies, about the homeland, about youth, about the innocence and love of adolescence. Love exists in imagination, so loving Míria, who I thought was so dear, was just a pale illusion of my own. That tightrope walk of love will never find an answer. Love is merely a way of growing up until we grow old. Dialogue of Love: Each story is composed of the number three, and every three stories form the dome of a church. Filled with impossible love and mysterious, wise dialogue. The world is isolated, and everyone hopes to break this isolation and communicate through love. Yet in Klíma's stories, every communication is doomed to despair and failure. How far is the distance between love and death? Who is proving the existence of whom?