Slowness: A Novel: By Milan Kundera translated from French by Linda Asher 1st ed

Description: "Slowness: A Novel: By Milan Kundera" translated from French by Linda Asher pubished by Harper Perennial first Harper edition first printing 1997."Irresistible. . . . Slowness is an ode to sensuous leisure, to the enjoyment of pleasure rather than just the search for it." -- Mirabella 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. 156 pages.156 pages. Measures about 5" x 8".Selling for over $30.00 on other sites. Note: We are selling this and other items to raise money for my brother who is now essentially homeless living in a shed. He lost our family home that my grandfather built around 1912. My brother did essentially volunteer work around the United States, in India, Sri Lanka, and in Japan for over 50 years. He became an ordained Buddhist monk in Japan about 30 years ago, the First American to do so in decades. He failed to save for his senior years and he is now in his 70's. He lost the family home due to an unexpected death in the family and his lack of funds to pay off the estate. Your purchase will go to aid him in this current struggle. Thank you for taking the time to read this.

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