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Identity: A Novel | Milan Kundera
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There are situations in which we fail for a moment to recognize the person we are with, in which the identity of the other is erased while we simultaneously doubt our own. This also happens with couples--indeed, above all with couples, because lovers fear more than anything else "losing sight" of the loved one. With stunning artfulness in expanding and playing variations on the meaningful moment, Milan Kundera has made this situation--and the vague sense of panic it inspires--the very fabric of his new novel. Here brevity goes hand in hand with intensity, and a moment of bewilderment marks the start of a labyrinthine journey during which the reader repeatedly crosses the border between the real and the unreal, between what occurs in the world outside and what the mind creates in its solitude. Of all contemporary writers, only Kundera can transform such a hidden and disconcerting perception into the material for a novel, one of his finest, most painful, and most enlightening. Which, surprisingly, turns out to be a love story.
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Skygoddess1
Identity: A Novel | Milan Kundera
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I love Identity for the myriad of twists. This afternoon‘s movie for #scarathlon and #TeamMonsterMash +6 pts

CBee Oh my goodness yes, that movie was SO twisty!! Good stuff 👍🏻👍🏻 2y
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CoraHirashiki
Identity: A Novel | Milan Kundera
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“That is why she dislikes dreams: they impose an unacceptable equivalence among the various periods of the same life, a leveling contemporaneity of everything a person has ever experienced; they discredit the present by denying it its privileged status. As in that night‘s dream, it obliterated a whole chunk of her life...”

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Moray_Reads
Identity: A Novel | Milan Kundera
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#nostalgia #quotsyjune18
This book is a fascinating look at how we shape and are shaped by ideas and instances of identity

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TheBookKeeper
Identity: A Novel | Milan Kundera
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"To ensure that the self doesn't shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls for regular contact with witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends."
Milan Kundera, Identity

#TheBookKeeper #milankundera #identity #reading #books #memories #whyweread #consolation

http://thebookkeepersite.wordpress.com/2017/07/17/the-old-lady-who-bought-a-book...

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Sherine1
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Panpan

I just read the Arabic translation of this book (Identity) and I'm left with a huge question mark: what on earth have I just read??
I didn't like it at all! Felt like forced philosophy! I didn't get the identity issue or the conflict he was trying to present. I don't know if the translation has failed to pass the point he was trying to make but to me it was just words pretending to be real philosophy