Immortality
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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060932381 (0060932384)
ASIN: 60932384
Publish date: October 20th 1999
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
It's not the thought that counts, it's the gesture.I have always said so, and I love the way this novel riffs on the gesture as metaphor. I don't agree with Kundera that "a gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual," but I like his notion that "no individual is capable of creatin...
It's not the thought that counts, it's the gesture.I have always said so, and I love the way this novel riffs on the gesture as metaphor. I don't agree with Kundera that "a gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual," but I like his notion that "no individual is capable of creatin...
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