Immortality - (Perennial Classics) by Milan Kundera (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A modern classic, "Immortality" is "ingenious, witty, provocative, and formidably intelligent, both a pleasure and a challenge to the reader" ("Washington Post Book World").<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Ingenious witty provocative and formidably intelligent, both a pleasure and a challenge to the reader. -- Jonathan Yardley, <em>Washington Post Book World</em></strong></p><p>Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Brilliantly mordant...beautifully translated...strong and mesmerizing.--<strong><em>New York Times</em></strong><br><br>Ingenious witty provocative and formidably intelligent, both a pleasure and a challenge to the reader.--<strong>Jonathan Yardley, <em>Washington Post Book World</em></strong><br><br>Inspired Kundera's most brilliantly imagined novel...A book that entrances, beguiles and charms us from first page to last.--Cleveland Plain Dealer<br>
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