Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Milan Kundera
- First Published: 1969
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: Probably the mid-twentieth century
- Setting: Czechoslovakia
- Principal Characters: An unnamed man, An unnamed woman
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Twentieth century, Europe or Europeans, Death or dying, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans, Aging, Cemeteries, Czechoslovakia or Czechoslovakians
- Locales: Czechoslovakia
The Story
An unnamed divorced man, thirty-five years of age and handsome, is resigned to his rather dull lot in life but becomes depressed on noticing a bald spot developing on the top of his head. This sign of approaching old age causes him to think about his accomplishments in life. He concludes that he has experienced little, especially in relation to women, who—he believes—provide the only true fulfillment in life.
As he is walking home from work one day, oblivious to his surroundings, he almost passes by a former lover. The woman, however, recognizes the man...
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