Slowness Paperback - 1997
by Milan Kundera
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.
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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 merely a perpetual show emptied of every intimacy and every joy.
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- Title Slowness
- Author Milan Kundera
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 176
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
- Publication date 1997-04-11
- ISBN 9780060928414 / 0060928417
- Weight 0.31 lbs (0.14 kg)
- Dimensions 8.06 x 5.44 x 0.41 in (20.47 x 13.82 x 1.04 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Category Fiction - General
- Library of Congress subjects Love stories, Time travel
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 96006253
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- New York Times, 06/08/1997, Page 32
- NY Times Notable Bks of Year, 01/01/1997, Page 97
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