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Slowness - Milan Kundera
Slowness
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Disconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows the narrator 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, finally culminating in poignant cross-century encounter sure to linger in... show more
Disconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows the narrator 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, finally culminating in poignant cross-century encounter sure to linger in the reader's mind

Despite Kundera's disclaimer about the novel's seriousness, Slowness resonates with a profound meditation on contemporary life, the secret bond between slowness and memory, the connection between our era's desire to forget and the way we have given ourselves over to the demon of speed.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780060173692 (0060173696)
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 156
Edition language: English
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PSR's Book Blog rated it
3.0 Slowness
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...
travelin
travelin rated it
5.0 Slowness
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.
dust.gathering
dust.gathering rated it
4.0 Slowness: A Novel
Zanimljivo, ponešto nerazrađeno i kratko.
Tower of Iron Will
Tower of Iron Will rated it
3.0
About all I recall about this slightest of Kundera's novels is that it made me want to read Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
Lavinia
Lavinia rated it
"'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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