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Title: Identity: A Novel by Milan Kundera ISBN: 0060930314 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: May, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.89
Rating: 3
Summary: Elegant and strange
Comment: More elegant musings from novelist, philosopher and all-round deep thinker Milan Kundera. In this brief but intense novel, Kundera explores the contradictions of identity, how it orientates itself by the clear distinctions between what is familiar and unfamiliar, despite these distinctions being in a continual state of flux, blurred by time and circumstance. A seemingly ordinary couple, Chantal and Jean-Marc, become progressively unsettled and confused by the nature of their relationship. The effects of insignificant events mingle with deeper personal anxieties - the death of Chantal's child and her feelings of unattractiveness, Jean-Marc's romantic fear of destitution and the death of his former friend F.- and threaten to force them into a destructive spiral of reproach and uncertainty. Kundera touches on some interesting subjects, the fragility of certainty, and how friendship and identity when untested by adversity are only partially formed. Whatever its meaning, at least Kundera says his piece quickly (it can easily be read in a day) and with enough skill and eloquence to make it an enjoyable read, if a little bizarre.
Rating: 5
Summary: ECONOMICAL in all but Attitude & Truth . . .
Comment:
HOW INFREQUENT it is to understand you share a tiny portion of time in history with someone so substantial; so outstanding above all others in a the similar craft. Milan Kunera is why - in a pocketbook sense - I read; and he, his works then, this, and those to come are the very best answer I have when some lover of writing tells me that our days are too short; and world history too immense to spend any of our time reading literature.
I CAN NOT (and wouldn't if I could) tell you WHY Identity is worth of a read. If you've ever bumped-up against Kundera by choice or college coercion, this small work is part of his best; certainly the best since ULB - and that's all you will need to know. If you are part of that crowd, I can guess only that its smallness is why you've not yet read the book.
SOMEWHERE BETWEEN Pynchon's Mason & Dixon and Wolfe's Man in Full this one missed my attention. That was my fault, and that was my loss until yesterday. the Teddy Rex diptych by Edmund Morris was well-made and properly presented;--grand and loud. This tiny offering from Milan Kundera trumps it.
IF YOU HAVE NEVER read Milan Kundera, begin here and you shall begin a never affection for literature. The work is his latest; certainly one of his greatest, and there are many great works that came before it. With the shelves of fiction weighted with so much rubbish here is something so poetic in presentation, beautiful in truth, that it almost makes up for the last 50 years.
Note: Mr. & Mrs. Hollywood, please stay clear of this work.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent
Comment: Milan kundera makes his books so fun to read! His style has the elegance of simplicity and intelligence. You can't help but enjoy his half-smiling, eye twinkling stories.
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Title: Immortality by Milan Kundera ISBN: 0060932384 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera ISBN: 0060932147 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Ignorance : A Novel by Milan Kundera ISBN: 0060002093 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Unbearable Lightness of Being : A Novel by Milan Kundera ISBN: 0060932139 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Slowness: A Novel by Milan Kundera ISBN: 0060928417 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: May, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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