Identity

Sometimes - perhaps only for an instant - we fail to recognise a companion; for a moment their identity ceases to exist, and thus we come to doubt our own. The effect is at its most acute in a couple where our existence is given meaning by our perception of a lover, and theirs of us. With his astonishing skill at building on and out from the significant moment, Kundera has placed such a situation and the resulting wave of panic at the core of the novel. In a narrative as intense as it is brief, a moment of confusion sets in motion a complex chain of events which forces the reader to cross and recross the divide between fantasy and reality. Profound, sad and disquieting but above all a love story, Identity provides further proof of Kundera's astonishing gifts as a novelist.

Product details

• Authors: Milan Kundera
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.11.1998
• EAN: 9780571196357
• ISBN: 978-0-571-19635-7
• No. of pages: 152
• Dimensions: 112 mm x 179 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Tschechische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Identity; Love; Sex, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary