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Kundera, oeuvre, coffret en 2 volumes. «La seule chose que je désirais […] profondément, avidement, c'était un regard lucide et désabusé. Je l'ai trouvé enfin dans l'art du roman. C'est pourquoi être romancier fut pour moi plus que pratiquer un "genre littéraire" parmi d'autres ; ce fut une attitude, une sagesse, une position ; une position excluant toute identification à une politique, à une religion, à une idéologie, à une morale, à une collectivité ; une non-identification consciente, opiniâtre, enragée, conçue non pas comme évasion ou passivité, mais comme résistance, défi, révolte. J'ai fini par avoir ces dialogues étranges : "Vous êtes communiste, monsieur Kundera? — Non, je suis romancier." "Vous êtes dissident? — Non, je suis romancier." "Vous êtes de gauche ou de droite? — Ni l'un ni l'autre. Je suis romancier."» Milan Kundera, Les Testaments trahis.

Jeter une lumière sur les problèmes les plus sérieux et en même temps ne pas prononcer une seule phrase sérieuse, être fasciné par la réalité du monde contemporain et en même temps éviter tout réalis

A dazzling collection of stories - originally banned in 1968 Prague - by a magnificent short-story writer (NYT) and author of classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being.A self-confessed hedonist in a world beset by politics . . . Marvellous.Salman RushdieKunderas achievement has been to bring both private life and political life into one comic framework.Ian McEwan On holiday, a man and his girlfriend pretend she is a hitchhiking stranger - but their game soon makes them strangers to each other. One young man reconnects with his grieving former lover, only to be shocked by her ageing body. Two friends embark on an obsessive mission to seduce as many women as possible in the Eternal Chase. A teacher fakes piety to seduce a devoutly religious girl: then jilts her and yearns for God. In these celebrated stories, Kundera probes our darkest erotic impulses and most destructive sexual fantasies - while seducing us with his graceful, whimsical prose.

Befriend a budding poet and his adoring mother in this seductive early novel - winner of the Prix Médicis - by the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.An artist, clearly one of the greatest to be found anywhere.Salman RushdieKunderas achievement has been to bring both private life and political life into one comic framework.Ian McEwan Young Jaromil knows he is special; in fact, he is a poet bestowed with literary genius, heir to Rimbaud. He knows this because his adoring mother told him so. Adult Jaromil, still revelling in these truths, draws on his talents to find romance whilst making his mark on the world through both his poetry and advancing the Communist revolution. Son, Poet, Lover. In which of these roles does Jaromils true existence lie? A blazingly satirical reflection on the lyrical age of youthful innocence, this ironic epic of adolescence showcases Kunderas savage yet tender wit at its finest.

The last novel by the international superstar and author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.Kundera is the saddest, funniest, and most lovable of authors.TimesAn artist, clearly one of the best to be found anywhere. Salman RushdieKundera designs fictions of the highest order.Ian McEwan Casting light on the most serious of problems and at the same time saying not one serious sentence; being fascinated by the reality of the contemporary world and at the same time avoiding realism - thats The Festival of Insignificance. In Kunderas earlier novel, Slowness, Vera, the authors wife, says to her husband: youve often told me you meant to write a book one day that would have not a single serious word in it . . . I warn you: watch out. Your enemies are lying in wait. Far from watching out, Kundera finally and fully realises his old aesthetic dream in a novel that we could view as a summation of his whole work. A strange sort of summation. Strange sort of epilogue. Strange sort of laughter, inspired by our era, which is comical because it has lost all sense of humor. What more can we say of Kunderas last novel? Nothing. Just read.

A masterpiece (Salman Rushdie) by the author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being.It took the temperature of the age as no other book did. It was the great novel of the end of European Communism: a novel of ideas and eroticism, the surreal and the naturalistic.Howard JacobsonOne is torn between profound pleasure in the novels execution and wonder at the pain that inspired it.Ian McEwan One freezing day in 1948, Klement Gottwald addresses Prague, wearing his comrade Clementis fur cap - and Communist Czechoslovakia is born. But after being hanged for treason, Clementis is airbrushed out of propaganda photographs. All that remains is a bare wall, and his cap. So begins an unforgettable voyage through seven narratives, interspersed with luminous meditations on politics, philosophy, music and history.A dissident seeks his first lover - now a Party loyalist - to persuade her to return his romantic letters. A married couple manages their menage-a-trois as Mother moves in. A clandestine horoscope writer is questioned. An emigre widow struggles to reconstruct memories of her late husband, before finding herself on an island of children. A butchers wife embarks on an affair with a poetic student. And one man prepares to cross the border . . .What readers are saying:Kundera embrace politics, sex, philosophy and history, with a seen-it-all cynicism that nevertheless manages to be fascinating and even uplifting ... It was addictive and fun, sexy and cool, easy to read, and made me feel brighter, switched on, and more alive.You must read this novel. Cant tell you about it, you just have to do it yourself. Its bonkers-brilliant! Phantasmagoric originality like this comes very seldom in a readers so-sweet life.Kunderas unique writing style comes as a revelation ... This holds a special place in my reading history as the one book that I instantly began re-reading as soon as I finished it.Absolutely enchanted me. Its such an unique novel. It speaks of so many things, from communism and regimes to love and art. For me personally, it is a perfect book.I am not going to spoil the story here, but while the story is not supernatural in any way, it takes on a fantastical flavor, full of mysteries and strange emotions ... It is obvious that Kundera has thought a lot about life, about the meaning of life, and lets the reader in on his secrets.Such a unique writer, Kundera! What a way he has to shine the brightest light on the deepest corners of human psyche.

The debut by author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being, of which Salman Rushdie said: It is impossible to do justice here to the subtleties, comedy and wisdom of this very beautiful novel.A funny, sad, gripping, wise, marvellous book.Sunday Times Ludvik returns to his hometown a bitter man with a single aim: to do unto others what has been done to him. Expelled from the Communist Party as a student for a youthful joke, he has spent years exiled to a bleak labour camp. awaiting his chance for revenge on those who betrayed him - and one-time friends, lovers and comrades soon become entwined in his machinations as he devises the perfect plan . . . Kunderas iconoclastic debut novel was a sensation during the Prague Spring: later banned, it launched his worldwide literary reputation, and its passionate exploration of humour, censorship and individualism is even more powerful over half a century later.

The New York Times bestseller by the author of legendary cult classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being.Like all great writers, Kundera leaves indelible marks on his readers imaginations. Salman Rushdie From a playful gesture between an old woman in a swimming pool and a youthful lifeguard springs the heroine of a novel: Agnes. In the course of her daily life - Saturday chores, saunas, lunch in the hectic Paris streets - memories arise of her dead father, an unexpected widower. Their conversations flood back, and Agnesrealises that her secret inheritance was his way of granting her freedom. As she mentally revisits her childhood, from formative loves to her intense relationship with her sister, her past casts light on her present: her marriage, daughter, and eventual death.Exploring identity and existence, eroticism and modernity - with cameos from Goethe, Dali, Hemingway, and beyond - Immortality illuminates the nature of selfhood with inimitable wit, grace and intellectual nimbleness. A serial feast, a banquet for the brain.ObserverA joy to read. Wise, rueful, whimsically philosophical, Kundera teases the reader with provocations and paradoxes.Evening Standard

A heady, existential tale of seduction and romance by the author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being.An artist, clearly one of the best to be found anywhere.Salman RushdieKundera designs fictions of the highest order.Ian McEwanAudacity, wit and sheer brilliance.New York Times Book Review In a French chateau on a midsummers night, two tales of seduction entwine, separated in time by over two hundred years, but united in their quest for sensual pleasure. Through their romantic endeavors, a contemporary holidaymaker and eighteenth-century chevalier illustrate our eras obsession with the vulgar demon of speed - and the phenomenon of the dancer. Oscillating between the sublime and ridiculous, the historic and the modern, Kunderas first novel written in French is an enchanting libertine fantasy, radiant with intelligence and wisdom.

Milan KunderaA young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover -- these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence, we feel "the unbearable lightness of being" not only as the consequence of our pristine actions but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine.

Tal vez por haber sido escritas en el periodo (entre 1959 y 1968) más feliz de la vida de Milan Kundera, según sus propias palabras, las narraciones que componen el libro de los amores ridículos son las mas alegres, las mas seriamente desvergonzadas y las mas reflexivamente divertidas de toda su obra. La farandula de personajes hedonistas que desfila ante los ojos del lector, todos ellos en busca de los juegos multiples y contradictorios de la amistad, el amor y el sexo, y envueltos en un mundo lleno de severidad, hermetismo e inquisicion, no puede sino incitar a la risa. Una risa autentica, traviesa; un humor sabio, refinado y gozoso, al que nos tiene ya acostumbrados el autor de "la insoportable levedad del ser".

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In Ignorance, set in contemporary Prague, one of the most distinguished writers of our time takes up the complex and emotionally charged theme of exile and creates from it a literary masterpiece. A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned twenty years earlier when they chose to become exiles. Will they manage to pick up the thread of their strange love story, interrupted almost as soon as it began and then lost in the tides of history? The truth is that after such a long absence 'their memories no longer match.' We always believe that our memories coincide with those of the person we loved, that we experienced the same thing. But this is just an illusion as the memory records only 'an insignificant, minuscule particle' of the past, 'and no one knows why it's this bit and not any other bit.' We live our lives sunk in a vast forgetting, and we refuse to see it. Only those who return after twenty years, like Ulysses returning to his native Ithaca, can be dazzled and astounded by observing the goddess of ignorance first-hand. Milan Kundera has taken these dizzying concepts of absence, memory, forgetting, and ignorance, and transformed them into material for a novel, masterfully orchestrating them into a polyphonic and moving work.