Slowness
Milan Kundera · 1996
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Volume detail · entry 02445
Identity
- Year
- 1998
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- HarperFlamingo
- ISBN-13
- 9780060192785
- ISBN-10
- 006019278X
- Readers
- 41 on Open Library
- Rating
- 3.67 / 5 (6)
Description
Sometimes — perhaps only for an instant — we fail to recognize a companion; for a moment their identity ceases to exist, and thus we come to doubt our own. The effect is at its most acute in a couple, where our existence is given meaning by our perception of a lover, and theirs of us. With his astonishing skill at building on and out from the significant moment, Kundera has placed such a situation and the resulting wave of panic at the core of his new novel. In a narrative as intense as it is brief, a moment of confusion sets in motion a complex chain of events which forces the reader to cross and recross the divide between fantasy and reality.
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FictionMan-woman relationshipsIdentity (Psychology)Man-woman relationships in fictionModern fictionLarge type booksFiction, psychologicalMan-woman relationships, fictionLiterature
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