- Social life and customs, Manners and customs, Time travel, Fiction
After the gravity of The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Immortality, Slowness comes as a surprise: it is certainly Kundera's lightest novel, a divertimento, an opera buffa, with, as the author himself says, "not a single serious word in it"; then, too, it is the first of his novels to have been written in French (in the eyes of the French public, turning him definitively into a "French writer").
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Intimate, contemplative, comic and prestige.
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- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Milan Kundera
- First published
- January 2006
- Pages
- 156
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publisher, HarperPerennial, Tusquets
- Editions
- 29
- Language
- tur, Chinese, German, French
- ISBN
- 9783596197484
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Milan Kundera (1. dubna 1929 Brno – 11. července 2023 Paříž) byl česko-francouzský spisovatel. Od roku 1975 žil ve Francii, v roce 1979 byl zbaven československého státního občanství, roku 1981 získal občanství francouzské a v roce 2019 mu bylo vráceno občanství české. Texty psal nejdříve česky, později francouzsky. Do literatury vstoupil jako básník a dramatik, nakonec se ale stal celosvětově známým především jako prozaik a esejista. Jeho texty, zejména *Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí, Nesmrtelnost* a *Žert,* se zařadily mezi nejčastěji překládaná česká díla ve světě. Svá pozdější díla ve francouzštině k překladům do češtiny dlouho nesvěřoval, první přeloženou prózou do rodného jazyka se stala a
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