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Slowness
Slowness by Milan Kundera manages to be both a heady tale of seduction and romance and, at the same time, a formidable display of existential analysis.
A heady, existential tale of seduction and romance by the author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
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Slowness was Milan Kundera's first novel written in French. Disconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows him through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated in time by more than two hundred years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and ridiculous.
As Kundera's readers would expect, Slowness is at the same time a formidable display of existential analysis. Slowness (and rapidity), discretion (and exhibitionism) are the principal concepts, and those which are to the reader like vital keys for understanding life in our contemporary world.
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Milan Kundera's Slowness is celebrated for its wit, audacity, and engaging prose. It serves as an exploration of sensuous leisure, advocating for the enjoyment of pleasure. Despite its thematic focus on slowness, the book is noted for its fast-paced narrative and accessibility, marking it as an enjoyable read.
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ISBN: 9780571179435
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 06 January 1997
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Edition: Main - Re-issue
Contributors:
- Translated by Linda Asher
- Translated by Linda Asher
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 9.0mm
Width: 125.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 115g
Pages: 144
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About the Author
Milan Kundera, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, was a student when the Czech Communist regime was established in 1948, and later worked as a labourer, jazz musician and professor at the Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studies in Prague. After the Russian invasion in August 1968, his books were proscribed. In 1975, he and his wife settled in France, and in 1981, he became a French citizen. 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 of the short-story collection Laughable Loves - all originally in Czech. His most recent novels, Slowness, Identity and Ignorance, as well as his non-fiction works The Art of the Novel and Testaments Betrayed, were originally written in French.
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