Identity (Paperback, Main)

A short, unsettling and offbeat love story from the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Like most of us, Kundera's characters spend more time thinking about sex than having sex, but their thoughts are comic, erotic and profound. In this story a chic couple explore the limits of intimacy and the impossibility of possession. 'His jealousy was not the same sort as he had known in his youth... very gradually it was transforming a beloved woman into the simulacrum of a beloved woman.' (Kirkus UK)

Sometimes - perhaps only for an instant - we fail to recognise a companion; for a moment their identity ceases to exist, and thus we come to doubt our own. The effect is at its most acute in a couple where our existence is given meaning by our perception of a lover, and theirs of us. With his astonishing skill at building on and out from the significant moment, Kundera has placed such a situation and the resulting wave of panic at the core of the novel. In a narrative as intense as it is brief, a moment of confusion sets in motion a complex chain of events which forces the reader to cross and recross the divide between fantasy and reality. Profound, sad and disquieting but above all a love story, Identity provides further proof of Kundera's astonishing gifts as a novelist.

General

Imprint:	Faber and Faber
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 1999
Authors:	Milan Kundera
Dimensions:	198 x 128 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	152
Edition:	Main
ISBN-13:	978-0-571-19567-1
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	0-571-19567-9
Barcode:	9780571195671

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