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 character springs a novel, a gesture of the imagination that both embodies and articulates Milan Kundera’s supreme mastery of the novel and its purpose; to explore thoroughly the great, themes of existence.
Weight | 0.4 kg |
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ISBN | 9780571144563 |
Publisher | Faber & Faber |
Publication Year | 2000 |
Pages | 387 |
Format | Paperback |