The Golden Apple of Eternal Desire (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Milan Kundera
- First Published: 1963
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: 1963
- Setting: Prague, Czechoslovakia
- Principal Characters: The unnamed narrator, Martin
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s, Sex or sexuality, Betrayal, Friendship, Guilt, Hallucinations or illusions, Nursing or nurses, Hospitals, Games, Czechoslovakia or Czechoslovakians, Dating
- Locales: Prague, Czechoslovakia
The Story
The story opens with a quotation from the French author Blaise Pascal: “They do not know that they seek only the chase and not the quarry.” The quotation is an ironic commentary on the game of womanizing played by the story's two middle-aged male protagonists. The unnamed narrator is in a café, reading a book obtained with great difficulty from a library. His friend Martin, a seasoned veteran of the game of womanizing, joins him and draws his attention to a woman sitting at another table. When she gets up to leave and collects her shopping bag from the cloakroom,...
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