- Paperback: 176 pages
- Publisher: Harper Perennial; Translated By Linda Asher, First Edition edition (May 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0060928417
- ISBN-13: 978-0060928414
- Product Dimensions: 20.5 x 13.8 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,499,965 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"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"
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Slowness was Milan Kundera's first novel written in French. Disconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows him through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated in time by more than two hundred years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and ridiculous.
As Kundera's readers would expect, Slowness is at the same time a formidable display of existential analysis. Slowness (and rapidity), discretion (and exhibitionism) are the principal concepts, and those which are to the reader like vital keys for understanding life in our contemporary world.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I'm a big Kundera fan and have read most of his other books. Slowness is different to his earlier books in that it is significantly smaller and was orignally written in French (rather than his native Czech). However, it is still brimming with Kundera's typically astute observations on life, love - and specifically in this novel - the pace at which we live our lives. Kundera postulates that we (well, some of us) live quickly in order to forget our forgettable lives.
Readable in three or four hours, this is a great introduction to Kundera for the uninitiated, and a by no means slight addition to his oeuvre for those who have read him before.
Readable in three or four hours, this is a great introduction to Kundera for the uninitiated, and a by no means slight addition to his oeuvre for those who have read him before.
Format:Paperback
Slowness is beautifully written. It stays with you long after you have read it. It begs to be read again.
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"Slowness" and "Identity" are Kundera's post-"Immortality" novels. Milan Kundera's style and writing improves gradually from his first novel, "The Joke", and by "The Unbearable Lightness..." and "Immortality" he has developed an incredibly powerful style. His writing ability keeps on evolving in "Slowness" and in "Identity", but in these novels he does convey a message as deep as those found in his earlier novels. In "Slowness" Kundera compares two incidents separated in time. It reads very well, is quite funny at times, and is not meant to be too serious or deep.
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