Immortality (Perennial Classics) - Softcover

Kundera, Milan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060932384 ISBN 13: 9780060932381

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1999

Synopsis

Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that cre-ates 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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Review:

"Ingenious witty provocative and formidably intelligent, both a pleasure and a challenge to the reader." -- Jonathan Yardley, "Washington Post Book World""Inspired Kundera's most brilliantly imagined novel...A book that entrances, beguiles and charms us from first page to last."-- Susan Miron, "Cleveland Plain Dealer""Brilliantly mordant...beautifully translated...strong and mesmerizing." -- "New York Times"

Book Description:

Immortality, by Milan Kundera, the hugely acclaimed Czech novelist and author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being: 'It will make you cleverer, maybe even a better lover. Not many novels can do that.' Nicholas Lezard

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0060932384
• ISBN 13: 9780060932381
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 345