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The Festival of Insignificance
Milan Kundera
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Description for The Festival of Insignificance
paperback. Offering a strange sort of summation and laughter, this titles casts light on the most serious of problems and at the same time saying not one serious sentence. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 198 x 10. Weight in Grams: 108.
Casting light on the most serious of problems and at the same time saying not one serious sentence; being fascinated by the reality of the contemporary world and at the same time completely avoiding realism-that's The Festival of Insignificance. Readers who know Kundera's earlier books know that the wish to incorporate an element of the unserious in a novel is not at all unexpected of him. In Immortality, Goethe and Hemingway stroll through several chapters together talking and laughing. And in Slowness, Vera, the author's wife, says to her husband: you've ... Read more
Casting light on the most serious of problems and at the same time saying not one serious sentence; being fascinated by the reality of the contemporary world and at the same time completely avoiding realism-that's The Festival of Insignificance. Readers who know Kundera's earlier books know that the wish to incorporate an element of the unserious in a novel is not at all unexpected of him. In Immortality, Goethe and Hemingway stroll through several chapters together talking and laughing. And in Slowness, Vera, the author's wife, says to her husband: you've ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Faber And Faber Ltd.
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571316496
SKU
9780571316496
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About Milan Kundera
The French-Czech novelist Milan Kundera was born in the Czech Republic and has lived in France since 1975.
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