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Title: Immortality by Milan Kundera, Peter Kussi ISBN: 0-06-093238-4 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.32 (53 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This book is......Immortal!
Comment: If you like straightforward books with straightforward plots, straightforward characters and straightforward beginnings, storylines and conclusions, this book may not for you.
The novel takes place in the present, in the past, in the afterlife & in the surreal world of Kundera's imagination. The work has several different seemingly separate stories that Kundera somehow weaves into a coherent whole. We meet people that we are led to believe actually exist who talk with the author during "intermissions" of the novel. Later, we learn that Kundera was discussing topics with the characters in his novel.
The book has sundry marvelous sections which brood over just about every intellectual topic associated with immortality. We see an eloborate (although fictionalized) glimpse of Goethe's historical meeting with Napoleon. We get an impression of how many great artists look upon their craft as mementos of their immortality. We even get an answer to the $60,000 question: WHAT would happen if Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Earnest Hemingway met up in the afterlife? (Wow! What a thought!)
As I mentioned earlier, this book does not have the standard structure of most other novels. That said, however, it was quite enjoyable to read. It did not go off the deep end of Faulkneresque stream-of-consciousness psycho-babble. An excellent and entertaining postmodern effort.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Search of Immortality...
Comment: What an influential and meaningful book to read, explains the desire of immortality, and the different ways people take to reach the unreachable. It all starts with a simple gesture of a woman saying good-bye leaving a swimming pool, and then Milan Kundera's style, choice of words, and the relation he introduces between two different stories (which took place in two different centuries) takes you to a more complicated but very enjoyable concept.
There are many characters in the book, but Kundera was able to describe each ones mind and intentions in the best humanness way, we do learn something from each of them, and it does teach one or two things about this life we are living, and how real it is!!!
A book very well written, captures all your attention because of the little twists that Kundera introduces, and it makes you wonder even more about things you already knew...
Rating: 5
Summary: Masterful storytelling and profundity at the same time
Comment: First introduced to Milan Kundera many years ago when seeing the film "The Unberable Lightness of Being," I was struck by the author's powers of perception. Of course I wanted to know if this was something the movie director had done, or if it was the doing of a brilliant author. I found the latter. Still, wondering if this powerful perception had been just a fluke, I travelled on to Kundera's other books. None disappointed. "Immortality" is for me, one of the authors best efforts, right up there with "The Unbearable." I've only ever come across one other author that so connects with his audience the way Kundera does, and that is Jackson McCrae, particularly in his novel, The Bark of the Dogwood. Other than that, Kundera stands alone. "Immortality" is a remarkable read, full of insight and warmth, perhaps not with the same "drive" as "Unbearable Lightness" but with all the craftsmanship and heart. I highly recommend this wonderful tale.
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Title: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera, Aaron Asher ISBN: 0060932147 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Identity: A Novel by Milan Kundera ISBN: 0060930314 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Unbearable Lightness of Being : A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Milan Kundera ISBN: 0060932139 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Ignorance : A Novel by Milan Kundera ISBN: 0060002107 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Slowness: A Novel by Milan Kundera, Linda Asher ISBN: 0060928417 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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