Slowness

Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:SlownessISBN13:9780060928414ISBN10:0060928417Author:Kundera, Milan (Author)Description: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 From One Of The Most Distinguished Writers Of Modern Times Comes A Libertine Fantasy Which Is Also A Profound Meditation On Contemporary Life Ruminating On How The Pleasures Of Slowness Have Disappeared In Today's Fast-Paced, Future-Shocked World, Kundera Explores The Secret Bond Between Slowness And Memory And The Connection Between Our Era's Desire To Forget And The Ways In Which We Have Given Ourselves Over To The Demon Of Speed Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:Harper PerennialPublication Date:1997-04-11Weight:0.31 lbsDimensions:0.41'' H x 8.06'' L x 5.44'' WNumber of Pages:176Language:English

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