Slowness

Informationen zum Autor The French-Czech novelist Milan Kundera was born in the Czech Republic and has lived in France since 1975. He died in Paris in 2023. A former fiction editor at The New Yorker , Linda Asher has translated work by Milan Kundera, Georges Simenon, Victor Hugo, Balzac, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Restif de la Bretonne, and many others. Awarded several translation prizes, she is a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters of the French Republic. Klappentext Readers are taken through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated by more than 200 years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the ridiculous. They provide merely a narrative framework for Kundera's novel, within which is condensed existential analysis. Vorwort A heady, existential tale of seduction and romance by the author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being . Zusammenfassung Readers are taken through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated by more than 200 years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the ridiculous. They provide merely a narrative framework for Kundera's novel, within which is condensed existential analysis.

Product details

• Authors: Milan Kundera
• Assisted by: Linda Asher (Translation), Asher Linda (Translation)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.01.1997
• EAN: 9780571179435
• ISBN: 978-0-571-17943-5
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 198 mm x 12 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Tschechische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), FICTION / Literary, Eroticism; Seduction; Society; Translation, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary