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Book Description
Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agnes becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that chContinue
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lrb published on Sun, 5 Sep 2010
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Selective Affinities
Milan Kundera’s new novel Immortality is a tragicomic jeu d’esprit stuffed with references and meanings, and even, you might say, ready-annotated. The story is set in Paris and very simple: Paul is a lawyer with a wife, Agnes, who works for a compute ... (read full critics)
nybooks published on Wed, 25 Aug 2010
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- English Books
- Paperback 352 Pages
- Edition: 1st HarperPerennial Ed
- ISBN-10: 0060932384
- ISBN-13: 9780060932381
- Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
- Pub date: Nov 01, 1999
- Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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| 9780060932381 | Paperback | $14.99 | $12.81 | bn.com |
| $14.99 | $9.99 | The Book Depository | ||
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Lissette 2 
Kundera’s Man of Feeling
Milan Kundera writes novels, but are they philosophy or fiction? Kundera himself (in an interview collected in The Art of Novel) finds the comparison with philosophy ‘inappropriate’: ‘Philosophy develops its thought in an abstract realm, without char ... (read full critics)