Slowness: A Novel (Audio)
ISBN:
9780062215567 (0062215566)
Publish date: July 31st 2012
Publisher: HarperAudio
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Literary Fiction,
Philosophy,
Contemporary,
Modern,
France,
Czech Literature
Okay, cards on the table time... I'd read the three books for which Milan Kundera is best known - 'The Joke', 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting' and 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' - and I loved them all. In fact, I'd just re-read TULOB again and was as impressed and immersed as last time, th...
My rating is probably out of bounds. I don't know. I just remember a sense of calm which I often get reading Kundera. He starts off with a motorcycle chase as a metaphor for regrettable speed in life and it somehow predicted the events of Princess Diana's death not long after I'd read it.
Zanimljivo, ponešto nerazrađeno i kratko.
About all I recall about this slightest of Kundera's novels is that it made me want to read Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
"'lentoarea' este martutia unui spectator consternat, dar nu lipsit de reactie in fata narcisismului gaunos si ridicol al 'balerinilor' [concept inventat de kundera si susceptibil de a face scoala] de pe scena occidentala a zilelor noastre."cum defineste kundera 'balerinul': "toti oamenii politici d...
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