
- Publisher:
- FABER & FABER
- Year of publication:
- 2000
- ISBN:
- 978-0-571-14456-3
- Pages:
- 387
IMMORTALITY
MILAN KUNDERA
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 Anna, Kundera's Agnes becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that character springs a novel, a gesture of the imagination that both embodies and articulates Milan Kundera's supreme mastery of the novel and its purpose; to explore thoroughly the great, themes of existence.