Immortality /
Kundera, Milan.
Immortality / Milan Kundera ; translated from the Czech by Peter Kussi. - 1st American ed. - New York : Grove Weidenfeld, 1991. - 345 pages ; 25cm. - Archives of Czechs and Slovaks Abroad. .
The face -- Immortality -- Fighting -- The sisters -- Dark glasses -- The body -- Addition and subtraction -- Older woman, younger man -- The Eleventh Commandment -- Imagology -- The brilliant ally of his own gravediggers -- A complete ass -- The cat -- The gesture of protest against a violation of human rights -- To be absolutely modern -- To be a victim of one's fame -- Fighting -- Professor Avenarius -- The body -- The gesture of longing for immortality -- Ambiguity -- The clairvoyant -- Suicide -- Dark glasses -- Homo sentimentalis -- Chance -- The dial -- The celebration. PART ONE -- PART TWO -- PART THREE -- PART FOUR -- PART FIVE -- PART SIX -- PART SEVEN --
"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 Agnes 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 thoroughly explore the great themes of existence. A work in seven parts, Immortality involves four contemporary characters-- Agnes, her husband Paul, her sister Laura, and the sad hedonist Rubens-- as well as the curious historic couple of Goethe and Bettina von Arnim. Through these characters, Kundera reflects with powerful insight on modern life and Western society. But, as always with Kundera, the true theme of the novel is elsewhere; his subject is existential and metaphysical. The cult of sentimentality, its role in our lives and in the history of the West, and the conflict between the individual and his image: here, in an unforgettable scene, we encounter our own Hemingway in heaven with Goethe, discussing the sorrows of immortality, the powerlessness of man before an image of himself over which he has no control. Immortality, intelligent, original, funny, and entirely captivating, is a major novel by one of the most acclaimed writers of our time." --
Translation of: Nesmrtelnost.
0802111114 9780802111111 0060932384 0060974486 9780060974480 9780060932381
90028628
(AMICUS)000010317603
1900-1999
Self-perception--Fiction.
French fiction--20th century.
Self-perception--Fiction.
Perception de soi--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Roman français--20e siècle.
French fiction.
Self-perception.
Allegories.
Fiction.
Allegories.
Allegories.
Translations--20th century.
Allégories.
PG5039.21.U6 / N3413 1991 F / K9621im
891.8/635
Immortality / Milan Kundera ; translated from the Czech by Peter Kussi. - 1st American ed. - New York : Grove Weidenfeld, 1991. - 345 pages ; 25cm. - Archives of Czechs and Slovaks Abroad. .
The face -- Immortality -- Fighting -- The sisters -- Dark glasses -- The body -- Addition and subtraction -- Older woman, younger man -- The Eleventh Commandment -- Imagology -- The brilliant ally of his own gravediggers -- A complete ass -- The cat -- The gesture of protest against a violation of human rights -- To be absolutely modern -- To be a victim of one's fame -- Fighting -- Professor Avenarius -- The body -- The gesture of longing for immortality -- Ambiguity -- The clairvoyant -- Suicide -- Dark glasses -- Homo sentimentalis -- Chance -- The dial -- The celebration. PART ONE -- PART TWO -- PART THREE -- PART FOUR -- PART FIVE -- PART SIX -- PART SEVEN --
"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 Agnes 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 thoroughly explore the great themes of existence. A work in seven parts, Immortality involves four contemporary characters-- Agnes, her husband Paul, her sister Laura, and the sad hedonist Rubens-- as well as the curious historic couple of Goethe and Bettina von Arnim. Through these characters, Kundera reflects with powerful insight on modern life and Western society. But, as always with Kundera, the true theme of the novel is elsewhere; his subject is existential and metaphysical. The cult of sentimentality, its role in our lives and in the history of the West, and the conflict between the individual and his image: here, in an unforgettable scene, we encounter our own Hemingway in heaven with Goethe, discussing the sorrows of immortality, the powerlessness of man before an image of himself over which he has no control. Immortality, intelligent, original, funny, and entirely captivating, is a major novel by one of the most acclaimed writers of our time." --
Translation of: Nesmrtelnost.
0802111114 9780802111111 0060932384 0060974486 9780060974480 9780060932381
90028628
(AMICUS)000010317603
1900-1999
Self-perception--Fiction.
French fiction--20th century.
Self-perception--Fiction.
Perception de soi--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Roman français--20e siècle.
French fiction.
Self-perception.
Allegories.
Fiction.
Allegories.
Allegories.
Translations--20th century.
Allégories.
PG5039.21.U6 / N3413 1991 F / K9621im
891.8/635