I have a lots of feelings.It was a very pretentious presentation, yet the story, when it was actually told/shown was really something to send one's mind reeling and pondering life, and our choices and actions, in a plethora of ways. As a person who enjoys intellectual stimulation, Kundera has manage...
On the surface, this is the story of 4 people, Tomas, Tereza, Sabina, and Franz. Tomas is married to Tereza, who he loves, but also is a irrepressible womanizer and has repeated affairs with many women, including Sabina. Sabina enjoys being Tomas' mistress and does not expect anything beyond the o...
"Kýč je přestupní stanice mezi bytím a zapomenutím." Loved the book - it goes through so many themes and moods, and is so achingly true... The dictionary of misunderstandings is my favourite part :)
Kundera is adept at just feeding us enough information about his characters that they become recognizable but not enough to let us focus solely on them. His goal being to give us digestible pieces of philosophy.Unlike some other writers of his era he doesn't try to hit us over the head with existent...
You can't beat Kundera for a novel of ideas, though he is rightly accused of lapsing into platitudes or drivel. At his best he weaves a complex but seamless and sexy story from many threads, the threads being the characters and politics and metaphors that personify and situate and exemplify his idea...
You can't beat Kundera for a novel of ideas, though he is rightly accused of lapsing into platitudes or drivel. At his best he weaves a complex but seamless and sexy story from many threads, the threads being the characters and politics and metaphors that personify and situate and exemplify his idea...
This was the second time I'd read this book. I'd forgotten that I'dread it before. I talked to a couple of other people about it, and weagreed that while it is very beautifully written, it does seem to bestrangely not extremely memorable. I'm not sure why. It feels somewhatlike a dream, and the deta...
I'm a pretty fast reader but this is the type of book I purposely read slow to savor every sentence. Part love story, part philosophical treatise, part political-historical novel (the occupation of Czechoslovakia by The Soviet Union), Kundera brings it all together in one beautiful story. The four m...
The tender story of a Czech serial adulterer and his wife, written in the early 1980s but set during times of political and personal upheaval, as told/analysed by a philosopher-cum-psychologist (who never explains his relationship with the characters). Light and deep - deserving of rereading. The Ox...
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