let the old dead make room for the young dead: faber stories (english edition)  <p><b>faber stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. </b><br /><br />a chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman, now a widow, who escaped him fifteen years earlier. neither of them doubts that the day will end in disgust, but for one intimate moment each finds a way to overcome mortality.<br /><br />written in 1969, before milan kundera was known to english-speaking readers, this story renders male and female characters painful equals, and prompted philip roth to admire its &apos;detached chekhovian tenderness&apos;.</p>