Immortality by Milan Kundera
A playful, philosophical novel that follows intertwined lives and brief gestures to examine how fleeting moments and reputations outlive individuals; through an intrusive narrator who alternates storytelling and essayistic digression, it interrogates the human longing for immortality—how love, jealousy, memory, rumor and the act of writing fix, distort or erase identity—and probes the tension between private self and public image, the politics of remembrance, and the paradox that attempts to live forever often erase what made life unique.
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- Published
- 1990
- Nationality
- Czech
- Length
- Moderate
- Pages
- 358
- Original Language
- Czech
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- Alternate Titles
- - Nesmrtelnost
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