Slowness
of Milan Kundera, Linda Asher (Translator)
Description
Milan Kundera's lightest novel, a divertimento, an opera buffa, Slowness is also the first of this author's fictional works to have been written in French.Disconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows the narrator of Slowness through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated by more than two hundred years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the comic. Underlying this libertine fantasy is a profound meditation on contemporary life: about the secret bond between slowness and memory, about the connection between our era's desire to forget and the way we have given ourselves over to the demon of speed. And about "dancers" possessed by the passion to be seen, for whom life is just merely a perpetual show emptied of every intimacy and every joy.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 156 pages
- Publisher Harper Perennial
- Publication Date April 11th 1997
- First Publication 01/12/95
- Language English
- ISBN 9780060928414
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['France']
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