Lindos lightness of being - Couverture souple

Wilton, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1917293097 ISBN 13 : 9781917293099

Editeur : PN Books, 2024

Synopsis

When the lives of a man and two women collide in the picturesque tourist village of Lindos on the island of Rhodes in the summers of 2019 and 2020 the man starts to question elements of his life lived on the basis of the 'unbearable lightness of being'.

An existence identified and defined in the Czech writer Milan Kundera's famous novel of the same name which explores and examines the tension between freedom and responsibility; the irreconcilable tension between love and infidelity.

Within that tension a range of events over those two Lindian summers highlight the responsibilities of the three characters to themselves and others - the man's introspection, dilemma and struggle between love and infidelity, one of the women's scepticism about him and relationships in general, and the other woman's driven self-interest within her political and personal opportunism. Each of the three is hiding secrets within them, including political ones, fuelling the tension and challenging any possibility of fidelity and love.

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"The stupidity of people comes from having an answer to everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything ... A novel does not assert anything; a novel searches and poses questions ... I don't know which of my characters is right. I invent stories, confront one with another, and by this means I ask questions."

"It seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask, so that the voice of the novel can hardly be heard over the noisy foolishness of human certainties." (Milan Kundera)

Author's website: www.johnwilton.yolasite.com

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À propos de l'auteur

John Wilton splits his time between London and Brno in the Czech Republic, as a Professor of International Relations and European Studies.In his professional capacity he has conducted extensive research into the 1989 revolutions in East and Central Europe, particularly in Romania and the former Czechoslovakia. His research interests have also taken him to a number of cities and regions of the former Soviet Union, and subsequently Russia. These include a visit to the Gorbachev Foundation in Moscow. His other research area interest is nineteenth century Russian literature and the Russian political tradition.John's time living and working in the Czech Republic over the past twenty-five years inspired his book The Hope, which is based on historical events from 1989. Similarly, his visits to the Greek island of Rhodes over the past twenty-seven years, including living there through five complete summers, inspired his novel 'Lindos Retribution', and his 8 subsequent novels based on Rhodes and Lindos. His favourite writing genre is historical fiction and favourite books include: Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera), Bring Up The Bodies (Hilary Mantel), To Kill A Tsar (Andrew Williams), The Glass Room (Simon Mawer). He usually writes during the mornings by a window, especially when he is travelling, working or living abroad.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: PN Books
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1917293097
• ISBN 13: 9781917293099
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 340
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible