Immortality (Perennial Classics) - Softcover

Kundera, Milan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060932384 ISBN 13: 9780060932381

Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Milan Kundera is the author of the novels The Joke, Farewell Waltz, Life Is Elsewhere, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and the short-story collection Laughable Loves—all originally written in Czech. His most recent novels Slowness, Identity, and Ignorance, as well as his nonfiction works The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain, and Encounter, were originally written in French.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Czech

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0060932384
• ISBN 13: 9780060932381
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352