Immortality

milan kundera peter kussi

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

Genres fictionphilosophyczech literaturenovelsliteratureclassicscontemporaryliterary fiction20th centuryfrance

400 pages, Paperback

First published January 12,1990

Literary awards

independent foreign fiction prize, cena jaroslava seiferta, kniha roku,

Places

paris, rome,

This edition

Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Published: January 3, 1998 by Faber and Faber
ISBN: 9780571144563
ASIN: 057114456X
Language: English

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About the author

milan kundera

Milan Kundera (1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a Czech and French novelist. He went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981. His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.

Kundera wrote in Czech and French. He revises the French translations of all his books; people therefore consider these original works as not translations. He is best known for his novels, including The Joke (1967), The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979), and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), all of which exhibit his extreme though often comical skepticism.