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Immortality
By : by Milan Kundera, Peter Kussi (Translator)
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Original Title : Nesmrtelnost
ISBN : 057114456X (ISBN13: 9780571144563)
Edition Language : English
Series : Agnes, Beatrice (diverse works), Rainer Maria Rilke, Laura Spencer, Goethe...more, Bettina, Bernard Bertrand, Bertrand Bertrand, Christine...less
Paperback, 400 pages
Published January 3rd 1998 by Faber and Faber (first published January 12th 1990)
Characters : Paris (France) Rome (Italy)
Setting : Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (1991), Cena Jaroslava Seiferta (1994), Kniha roku (1993)
Description : This breathtaking, reverberating survey of human nature finds Kundera still attempting to work out the meaning of life, without losing his acute sense of humour. It is one of those great unclassifiable masterpieces that appear once every twenty years or so.'It will make you cleverer, maybe even a better lover. Not many novels can do that.' Nicholas Lezard, GQ
Literary Awards : Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (1991), Cena Jaroslava Seiferta (1994), Kniha roku (1993)
REVIEWS :To become engaged within the first few pages of a book is always a good sign. However, at the back of my mind, history kept telling me that many other novels have started out in the stratosphere only to plummet to the bottom of the ocean. Milan Kundera's 'Immortality', starts great, gets better, and ended with a lump in my throat, and a soul that was struck by a chord. No actually, forget the single chord, this was more like an Orchestra going in full swing. Kundera has worked wonders here. Phenomenal ........including the best first 2 pages of a book I've ever read! Nesmrtelnost = Immortality, Milan KunderaImmortality (Czech: Nesmrtelnost) is a novel in seven parts, written by Milan Kundera in 1988 in Czech. First published 1990 in French. English edition 345 p., translation by Peter Kussi. This novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman, seemingly to her swimming instructor. Immortality is the last of a trilogy that includes The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting, and The Unbearable Lightness Of Being.تاریخ نخستین خوانش: ماه آگوست سال 1994 میلادیعنوان: On one level you could reduce this novel to the sour grapes of a man who’s getting old and losing his privileged place in the world. Not that this belittles its aspiration or wisdom because how the self changes with age, how the declining façade impacts the core, is a fascinating and rich subject. Kundera suggests the self doesn’t significantly change from within but rather is bullied out of its natural gait by the way people see us, by the images they impose on us. Even we ourselves are One of 3 books I would take to a desert island. A beautiful discussion on the nature of our legacy, what we decide to leave or not leave when we die. How that changes in time and how we can not do anything about it. Especially relevant to artists and writers. Delves into the nature of love and families while he is at it. It would take a life time to discuss this book. I let me captivate until the spell by this book of an author as fun, as lucid and desperate. Much can be found in this book. There is a reflection on the history of literature. There is an exhibition of what could be called the wisdom of erotic existence. There is also an exhibition of the dissolution of all senses, of all of the values on which Western civilization flourished, through characters whose anchorage in modernity is brilliantly marked. And everything that there is succeeded so well Playful ... moving ... didactic ... erotic ... misleading ... satisfying ... A couple years ago I bought four of Kundera’s books at once – this one, The Joke, Ignorance, and of course The Unbearable Lightness of Being – never having read a word written by him. Immortality is the first that I’ve read.I don’t know much about postmodernism in literature. I’ve read some novels that are called postmodernist. But there are many more … (view spoiler)[Here’s a list of ten that I found on line.Sot Weed There's something unique about Kundera, apart from the obvious. He has so many elements that I otherwise dislike, like the fact that he intervenes directly or that he interrupts the plot every so often to endlessly talk about his views, and yet his books seem to have something that grabs me by the neck every time, making me devour 150 pages in a single day! Up until now, The Unbearable Lightness of Being was my favorite Kundera, with the others following not very close (not too far either). Cerebral Crosswinds over Parisian Fields4.5 starsImmortality is so rejuvenating to the reading experience, pulling Goethe and Hemingway from beyond, effortlessly using magical literary devices in pleasing ways. It should leave an indelible mark on the way you view a novel. One cannot describe the plot/theme without spoiling the trip.When you begin reading Kundera, if you haven't read him before, it may help you to understand that he involves the writer (often a fictional character in himself) in I’m not going to give this book a “star” rating because can’t decide on one. There were parts of the novel that I found fascinating, parts that were completely confusing, and parts that were downright irrelevant. The beginning of the novel is very engaging. It sucks the reader right in. I was immediately interested in Kundera’s philosophy. Case in point: “There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of This was my first time reading Kundera. I picked it up in a bookstore on a whim and was completely enthralled. This author has a way of saying things I've always wanted to say, but never found the words to do so. He has a talent for observation that is cleverly, if not blatantly, philosophical. He's also very funny. But enough about him, since one of his main points is that we all concern ourselves way too much with the personal lives of creative artists rather than their actual work. Hence, I “To be mortal is the most basic human experience, and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and behave accordingly. Man doesn't know how to be mortal. And when he dies, he doesn't even know how to be dead.” I was torn between loving and hating this book but eventually I've come to like it a lot more with time. Love, because there are few writers with the gift of mixing fable and allegory, facts and fiction and metaphors into a delicious recipe called "the novel" like Kundera has Of my favourite authors, Haruki Murakami is like my enigmatic, bohemian tutor; Fyodor Dostoyevsky my reclusive, yet highly proficient counselor; and Milan Kundera an amiable uncle full of wit and wisdom. While Kundera's stories in themselves are beautiful, it's his philosophical insights and observations about mankind which I can't get enough of - yes, this is someone who I can truly respect in raising their voice about the human condition.When someone is young, he is not capable of conceiving I am passing through a really difficult time in my life, and just for saying a little summary of my whole situation, I dont know where I am right now. But I found myself in this book.The thing about reading is going throughout the labyrinth in your head, exploring it, until you find something new.This book, so far, is the best thing i've ever read. I don't know any other novels of this author, and is maybe because of that that I loved so much this book. His psychological style, his way in which.
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