Product Description

Readers are taken through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated by more than 200 years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the ridiculous. They provide merely a narrative framework for Kundera's novel, within which is condensed existential analysis.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #86524 in Books
• Published on: 1997-01-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 132 pages

Customer Reviews

Petite and perfectly formed
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.

Kundera light
"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.

Slownes- A beautiful book
Slowness is beautifully written. It stays with you long after you have read it. It begs to be read again.