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# Slowness 1st Edition

**Brand:** milan kunderalinda asher
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			        		After the gravity of The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Immortality, Slowness comes as a surprise: it is certainly Kundera&apos;s lightest novel, a divertimento, with, as the author himself says, &quot;not a single serious word in it.&quot;  Disconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows the narrator through a midsummer&apos;s night in which two tales of seduction, sperated by more than two-hundred years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the comic, finally culminating in poignant cross-century encounter sure to linger in the reader&apos;s mind  Despite Kundera&apos;s disclaimer about the novel&apos;s seriousness, Slowness resonates with a profound meditation on contemporary life, the secret bond between slowness and memory, the connection between our era&apos;s desire to forget and the way we have given ourselves over to the demon of speed.
						    	
					    	
						
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			        		Kundera&apos;s latest (after Immortality) is a scintillating jeu d&apos;esprit, as coolly elegant and casually brutal as the 18th-century French arts to which the text pays tribute. Indeed, this is the expatriate Czech author&apos;s first novel written in French, his adopted homeland&apos;s native tongue. The paintings of Fragonard and Watteau, Sade&apos;s La Philosophie dans le boudoir, Laclos&apos;s Les Liaisons dangereuses and an obscure novella entitled Point de lendemain, by Vivant Denon, are all invoked by the narrator, who may be Kundera himself (his wife calls him &quot;Milanku&quot;). He recalls the plot of Point de lendemain while visiting a chateau-turned-hotel, admiring the leisurely hedonism implicit in both these relics of a bygone age. &quot;Why has the pleasure of slowness disappeared?&quot; the narrator asks as he considers the frantic, joyless pursuit of stimulation that modern men and women call pleasure. He remembers-or perhaps invents-a group of French intellectuals determined to demonstrate their political correctness as a means of furthering their ambitions. &quot;Dancers,&quot; he calls them, discerning that they are more concerned with displaying their moral purity than with accomplishing anything. The political and sexual maneuverings of these contemporary characters intermingle with the narrator&apos;s musings and ongoing retelling of Point de lendemain; in a brilliant and oddly moving finale, the protagonist of the 18th-century novella comes face to face with his present-day counterpart, Vincent, who is incapable of slowing down long enough to appreciate the meaning of the experiences he has just undergone. A deliberate chilliness of tone and the one-dimensionality of Vincent and his peers keep this from being as emotionally engaging as it is intellectually stimulating. Nonetheless, it embodies provocative thoughts on personal and social triviality from a postmodern master. 100,000 first printing; $100,000 ad/promo. (May) FYI: Also in May, HarperPerennial is issuing a new translation of The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Aaron Asher, Kundera&apos;s longtime editor and publisher, and husband of Linda Ashe. The translation incorporates revisions made by Kundera in the mid-1980s.Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
						    	
					    	
						
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Kundera is a solid intellectual
*by D***D on October 24, 2010*

If you are amused by thought and thinking then the works of Milan Kundera are for you. All the stuff that is flowing through your mind in observing the world turns up on the pages of his novels. I especially enjoyed "Slowness" in its discussion of how people with quiet voices have trouble fitting into social situations with all those loud voices dominating. Yes, it hits close to home.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Kundera, not dead yet
*by E***N on July 14, 2015*

Juxtaposed several time periods--you gotta stay with Kundera in this book, and it stands up batter than more recent efforts.  Still, not sensational.

### ⭐⭐⭐ Disappointing
*by M***N on August 13, 2013*

it's funny how things that make such an impression on you when you're young can be fairly unimpressive when you are older. I still found the book to be a good read, but it seemed a bit crude.

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