Slowness - by Milan Kundera (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>From one of the most distinguished writers of modern times comes a libertine fantasy which is also a profound meditation on contemporary life. Ruminating on how the pleasures of slowness have disappeared in today's fast-paced, future-shocked world, Kundera explores the secret bond between slowness and memory and the connection between our era's desire to forget and the ways in which we have given ourselves over to the demon of speed. <p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Milan Kundera's lightest novel, a <em>divertimento</em>, an <em>opera buffa</em>, <em>Slowness</em> is also the first of this author's fictional works to have been written in French.</p><p>Disconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows the narrator of <em>Slowness</em> 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 merely a perpetual show emptied of every intimacy and every joy.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Irresistible. . . ."Slowness is an ode to sensuous leisure, to the enjoyment of pleasure rather than just the search for it."-- Cathleen Schine, "Mirabella""Audacity, wit, and sheer brilliance."-- "New York Times Book Review""Paradoxically, "Slowness. . . .is the fastest paced of Kundera's novels as well as the most accessible."-- "Boston Globe"<br>
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