Immortality (Paperback, Main)

On seeing a casual gesture of an unknown French woman, the author gives her the name Agnes and constructs her imaginary life and death with exuberant detail. Through her, Kundera satirizes human behaviour with unnerving accuracy, bringing to the fore our own half-thoughts and analysing them with humour and lyricism. Peter Conrad, the author and critic, has described how the book dismisses the brutal 20th century with its mad faith in applied science, and discounts too the 19th century, when the crazed cult of technical progress began. It calls instead, he says, for a return to the leisurely hedonism of the 18th century, and 'offers playful, ingenious evidence that the creative spirit is unkillable.' (Kirkus UK)

This breathtaking, reverberating survey of human nature finds Kundera still attempting to work out the meaning of life without losing his acute sense of humour. It is one of those great unclassifiable masterpieces that appear once every twenty years or so. 'It will make you cleverer, maybe even a better lover. Not many novels can do that.' Nicholas Lezard, GQ

General

Imprint:	Faber and Faber
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2000
Authors:	Milan Kundera
Translators:	Peter Kussi
Dimensions:	198 x 130 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	387
Edition:	Main
ISBN-13:	978-0-571-14456-3
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	0-571-14456-X
Barcode:	9780571144563

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