Milan Kundera
Paperback | Pages: 156 pages Rating: 3.65 | 14229 Users | 916 Reviews
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| Title | : | Slowness |
| Author | : | Milan Kundera |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 156 pages |
| Published | : | April 11th 1997 by Harper Perennial (first published January 12th 1995) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Novels. Literature. European Literature. Czech Literature. Philosophy |
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Milan Kundera's lightest novel, a divertimento, an opera buffa, Slowness is also the first of this author's fictional works to have been written in French.Disconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows the narrator of Slowness 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. Underlying this libertine fantasy is a profound meditation on contemporary life: about the secret bond between slowness and memory, about the connection between our era's desire to forget and the way we have given ourselves over to the demon of speed. And about "dancers" possessed by the passion to be seen, for whom life is just merely a perpetual show emptied of every intimacy and every joy.
List Books To Slowness
| Original Title: | La lenteur |
| ISBN: | 0060928417 (ISBN13: 9780060928414) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | France |
Rating Appertaining To Books Slowness
Ratings: 3.65 From 14229 Users | 916 ReviewsWrite-Up Appertaining To Books Slowness
Interesting, experimental, philosophical novel (in the loosest sense of the word) about the relationship between memory/forgetting and the pace of modern life. This could have been a complete mess but he manages the various strands of the story very well until the inevitable, farcical conclusion. Quite funny, too. Maybe this is the year he finally wins the Nobel...This isn't:Just no.It's more like:NOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooo.I'm sorry Kundera. I don't know if we are going to meet again, but the bridge-player in me isn't liking the odds.------------------------------A few months later: it turns out there is more to this story.I wrote that in June, and put the book on the hall table ready to give to my local secondhand bookshop. I know, I felt sort of bad about that. Its a lovely bookshop and deserves better.My mother at the age of 81 is an entirely
La lenteur = Slowness, Milan KunderaSlowness (French: La Lenteur), published in 1995 in France, is a novel written in French by Milan Kundera. In the book, Kundera manages to weave together a number of plot lines, characters and themes in just over 150 pages. While the book has a narrative, it mainly serves as a way for Kundera to describe a philosophy about modernity, technology, memory and sensuality.عنوانها: کندی آهستگی نویسنده: میلان کوندرا تاریخ نخستین خوانش: سال 2002 میلادیعنوان: کندی
I had to read this a couple of times to absorbe everything Milan Kundera was trying to say. It was worth the effort. Despite being a bit surreal, or pehaps because of it, the storyscape of this book is a bit more lush than in some of his other works. His characters are all blatent actors filling the roll of themselves- sometimes excessively so. Kundera's societal commentary runs rampent through the few books of his that I've read. It remains so with this one, also, but there seem to be more
I was expecting a novel but this book is as much an essay or a work of philosophy given a bit of plot to move it along. It blends two stories of seduction in totally different time frames, one modern, one historic, with twists of irony and comedy. (The blurbs say two love stories' but I dont agree that a male professor struggling to pick up a female grad student at an academic conference is a love story. lol) The historic romance is that told in Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos,
What an experience it was... The book, being only 150 pages detailed the premise of his story excellently. He writes: "There is a Czech proverb that describes their easy indolence by a metaphor: "They are gazing at God's windows." A person gazing at God's windows is not bored; he is happy. In our world, indolence has turned into having nothing to do, which is a completely different thing: a person with nothing to do is frustrated, bored, is constantly searching for the activity he lacks.""...
For those who've read other Kundera works, I felt this was an abrupt introduction to his style. Perhaps other felt otherwise (anyone?), but I didn't feel there was anything in Slowness that Kundera did not present in much eloquent, effective way in his other books. Rather, I found Slowness too much a touch too vulgar and misogynistic. High points:"An ode to sensuous leisure, to the enjoyment of pleasure rather than just the search for it." - This was actually a review on the back cover. But
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