Hi!


Hoy, tras haber fracasado en mi intento por conseguir "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", me decidí por llevarme a casa un libro del mismo autor (Milan Kundera), protagonizado por un adolescente que es al mismo tiempo brutal e inoscente ("innoscence with its bloody smile") y al que su madre induce a convertirse en poeta; este es "Life is Elsewhere".

Les cito acá un fragmento:

"[...]Never had she fell herself go in this way with another body, and never had another body let itself go with her this way. Her lover could play with her belly, but he had never lived in it; he could touch her breast, but he had never drunk from it. Ah, breast-feeding! She lovingly watched the fishlike movements of the toothless mouth and imagined that, along with her milk, her son was drinking her thoughts, her fantasies, and her dreams[...]"