... 's life, they are born at the awkward cusp between youth and adolescence; the time when Jaromil begins to pull away from his mother's suffocating grasp and leap into the unknown arms of a strange new world. This was on of the reasons Jaromil slipped away was his desire to be free of his mother's self-centered love - a burden that he strained against ... and "sells his soul" to gain acceptance. Instead of fighting for what he knows is his calling (indeed, he began writing surrealist poetry without the guidance of anyone in his life; in fact much of his later surrealist poetry was rejected...

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