Milan Kundera
"Incites us to reflect on fiction and philosophy, knowledge and truth, and brilliantly illustrates the art of the essay." — The New Republic
""Every novelist's work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of what the novel is. I have tried to express the idea of the novel that is inherent in my own novels."" — Milan Kundera
Kundera brilliantly examines
...4) Immortality
New York Times Bestseller
""Inspired. . . . Kundera's most brilliantly imagined novel. . . . A book that entrances, beguiles and charms us from first page to last."" — Cleveland Plain Dealer
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
..."I will say no more about this lacerating book except to urge it upon all who care about literature in our difficult era." — Boston Globe
"A sly and merciless lampoon of revolutionary romanticism. . . Kundera commits some of the funniest literary savaging since Evelyn Waugh polished off Dickens in A Handful of Dust."— Time
Milan Kundera initially intended to call this novel The Lyrical Age.
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