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Immortality

By Milan Kundera
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In Immortality, Milan Kundera weaves a novel sparked by a simple gesture—a woman’s nod to her swimming instructor—that inspires the writer protagonist. This act births Agnès, a captivating character whose story entwines with reflections on identity, desire, and the human condition, echoing the timeless intrigue of iconic literary figures like Flaubert’s Emma and Tolstoy’s Anna. Kundera masterfully explores the profound themes of existence through this imaginative and deeply thoughtful narrative.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This novel is ideal for readers who appreciate sophisticated literary fiction and enjoy contemplative narratives that probe philosophical questions about life and immortality. Fans of classic European literature and Milan Kundera's earlier works will find this book especially rewarding.

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A modern classic, "Immortality" is "ingenious, witty, provocative, and formidably intelligent, both a pleasure and a challenge to the reader" ("Washington Post Book World").

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New York Times Bestseller

"Inspired. . . . Kundera's most brilliantly imagined novel. . . . A book that entrances, beguiles and charms us from first page to last." — Cleveland Plain Dealer

Immortality, Milan Kundera's sixth novel, springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agnès becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that character springs a novel, a gesture of the imagination that both embodies and articulates Milan Kundera's supreme mastery of the novel and its purpose: to explore thoroughly the great themes of existence.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780060932381

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 October 1999

Country: United States

Imprint: HarperCollins

Contributors:

  • Translated by Peter Kussi
  • Translated by Peter Kussi

Audience: General / adult

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Weight: 0g

Pages: 345

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About the Author

The Franco-Czech novelist Milan Kundera (1929-2023) was born in Brno and lived in France, his second homeland, since 1975 until his death. He is the author of the novels The Joke, Life Is Elsewhere, Farewell Waltz, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and the short story collection Laughable Loves--all originally in Czech. His more recent novels, Slowness, Identity, Ignorance, and The Festival of Insignificance, as well as his nonfiction works, The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain, and Encounter, were originally written in French.

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