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Identity

A Novel

By Milan Kundera

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| Paperback | 9780060930318

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There are situations in which we fail for a moment to recognize the person we are with, in which the identity of the other is erased while we simultaneously doubt our own. This also happens with couples--indeed, above all with couples, because lovers fear more than anything else "losing sight" ofContinue

There are situations in which we fail for a moment to recognize the person we are with, in which the identity of the other is erased while we simultaneously doubt our own. This also happens with couples--indeed, above all with couples, because lovers fear more than anything else "losing sight" of the loved one.

With stunning artfulness in expanding and playing variations on the meaningful moment, Milan Kundera has made this situation--and the vague sense of panic it inspires--the very fabric of his new novel. Here brevity goes hand in hand with intensity, and a moment of bewilderment marks the start of a labyrinthine journey during which the reader repeatedly crosses the border between the real and the unreal, between what occurs in the world outside and what the mind creates in its solitude.

Of all contemporary writers, only Kundera can transform such a hidden and disconcerting perception into the material for a novel, one of his finest, most painful, and most enlightening. Which, surprisingly, turns out to be a love story.

Critics

  • She's scared to blink in case her man turns into somebody else

    Pity the wretched reviewer. Here is a novella about which there is virtually nothing to say. This is, indeed, the design of the author. One could retell the tale, if there was one. Or chatter about the negative aesthetic of the nouveau roman and its ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sun, 26 Sep 2010

  • On the Love Boat

    Milan Kundera’s new novel, Identity, written in French and marked at its end as “completed in France, Autumn 1996,” reads like a modest commentary on a famous page in Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past. Charles Swann’s love for Odette de Crécy, ente ... (read full critics)

    nybooks published on Tue, 24 Aug 2010

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