Description
Ingenious witty provocative and formidably intelligent, both a pleasure and a challenge to the reader. -- Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World
Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agnès becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that character springs a novel, a gesture of the imagination that both embodies and articulates Milan Kundera's supreme mastery of the novel and its purpose: to explore thoroughly the great themes of existence.
Author: Milan Kundera
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 10/20/1999
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.05h x 5.28w x 0.88d
ISBN13: 9780060932381
ISBN10: 0060932384
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Women