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Slowness

By: Milan Kundera, Linda Asher
Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie
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Milan Kundera's lightest novel, a divertimento, an opera buffa, Slowness is also the first of this author's fictional works to have been written in French. Disconcerted and enchanted, the listener follows the narrator of Slowness through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated by more than 200 years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the comic.

Underlying this libertine fantasy is a profound meditation on contemporary life: about the secret bond between slowness and memory, about the connection between our era's desire to forget and the way we have given ourselves over to the demon of speed, and about 'dancers' possessed by the passion to be seen, for whom life is merely a perpetual show emptied of every intimacy and every joy.

©2013 Milan Kundera (P)2013 Faber & Faber
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Classic Kundera, with lots of interwoven characters with a pinch of irony and darkish humour

Irony and humour hand in hand

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