Slowness
Author
Original Work
Translator
Language
Year
1997
Publisher
Country
United States
Pages
156
ISBN
978-0060928414
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.— Google Books
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- The Guardianby Maya Jaggi · Nov 2002
<p>Ignorance, Milan Kundera's new novel, is a Homeric tale of exile, memory and homecoming, says Maya Jaggi. But it's a pity about the sex</p>
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