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 reader follows the narrator of Slowness through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated by more than two hundred 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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 04/11/1997
ISBN: 9780060928414
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.44w x 0.41d

Review Citations: New York Times 06/08/1997 pg. 32
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 01/01/1997 pg. 97