Slowness: A Novel - Couverture souple

Kundera, Milan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0060928417 ISBN 13 : 9780060928414

Editeur : Harper Perennial, 1997

Synopsis

Book by Kundera Milan

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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 merely a perpetual show emptied of every intimacy and every joy.

Biographie de l'auteur

Milan Kundera is the author of the novels The Joke, Farewell Waltz, Life Is Elsewhere, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and the short-story collection Laughable Loves—all originally written in Czech. His most recent novels Slowness, Identity, and Ignorance, as well as his nonfiction works The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain, and Encounter, were originally written in French.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harper Perennial
• Date d'édition: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0060928417
• ISBN 13: 9780060928414
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176