Immortality

Description

New York Times Bestseller

“Inspired. . . . Kundera’s most brilliantly imagined novel. . . . A book that entrances, beguiles and charms us from first page to last.” — Cleveland Plain Dealer

Milan Kundera’s sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert’s Emma or Tolstoy’s Anna, Kundera’s Agnès becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that character springs a novel, a gesture of the imagination that both embodies and articulates Milan Kundera’s supreme mastery of the novel and its purpose: to explore thoroughly the great themes of existence.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Milan Kundera
Published: 10/20/1999
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 9780060932381
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 0.88″ H x 8.05″ L x 5.28″ W

About the Author
Kundera, Milan: –

The Franco-Czech novelist Milan Kundera (1929-2023) was born in Brno and lived in France, his second homeland, since 1975 until his death. 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 the short story collection Laughable Loves–all originally in Czech. His more recent novels, Slowness, Identity, Ignorance, and The Festival of Insignificance, as well as his nonfiction works, The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain, and Encounter, were originally written in French.