Slowness, Milan Kundera
Slowness, Milan Kundera
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Slowness
A Novel

Author: Milan Kundera

Narrator: Richmond Hoxie

Unabridged: 3 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 07/31/2012

Synopsis

""Irresistible. . . . Slowness is an ode to sensuous leisure, to the enjoyment of pleasure rather than just the search for it."" — MirabellaMilan 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.

About Milan Kundera

The Franco-Czech novelist Milan Kundera (1929–2023) was born in Brno and lived in France, his second homeland, since 1975 until his death. He is the author of the novels The Joke, Life Is Elsewhere, Farewell Waltz, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and the short story collection Laughable Loves—all originally in Czech. His more recent novels, Slowness, Identity, Ignorance, and The Festival of Insignificance, as well as his nonfiction works, The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain, and Encounter, were originally written in French.

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!

Goodreads review by Jim

[Edited 3/16/22] I was expecting a novel but this book is more an extended essay or a work of philosophy given a bit of plot to move it along. It blends two stories of seduction in totally different time frames, one modern, one historic, with twists of irony and comedy. (The blurbs say two ‘love stor......more

Goodreads review by فؤاد

۱. در میان سیارات هفتگانه که معبود یونانیان و رومیان بودند، دو سیاره رابطۀ جالبی با هم دارند: عطارد، نزدیک ترین سیاره به زمین بعد از ماه، و مشتری، دورترین سیاره به زمین بعد از زحل. عطارد به علت مدار کوتاهش پس از ماه سریع ترین چرخه را در آسمان دارد، و به همین دلیل پیک بادپای خدایان نیز هست. در حالی که......more

Goodreads review by Mutasim

"The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting." Slowness is a tale of modernity and sensuality. In this book, Kundera brings about a theory of the dancer, an idea where the dancer,......more

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