Slowness, Milan Kundera
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Slowness

Author: Milan Kundera

Narrator: Richmond Hoxie

Unabridged: 3 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Harper Audio

Published: 07/31/2012


Synopsis

Milan Kundera's lightest novel, a divertimento, an opera buffa, Slowness is also the first of this author's fictional works to have been written in French.Disconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows the narrator of Slowness through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated by more than two hundred years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the comic. Underlying this libertine fantasy is a profound meditation on contemporary life: about the secret bond between slowness and memory, about the connection between our era's desire to forget and the way we have given ourselves over to the demon of speed. And about "dancers" possessed by the passion to be seen, for whom life is merely a perpetual show emptied of every intimacy and every joy.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by merri on 2007-06-14 01:33:33

i don't know what this was, it was way too boring to get past the beginnng of the third chapter. i realize it was translated from french, but the language was so fancy and weird... this was worse than something you'd be forced to read at school. SKIP!