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Slowness
Slowness: A Novel | Milan Kundera
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.
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GatheringBooks
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EadieB Great quote! I own that book but haven‘t read it yet! 4y
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Leftcoastzen
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#bookspin book done. This is really some philosophy dressed up in a novella.Though some lines are captivating,I would recommend his most famous novel,The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Glad I read it anyway .

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Look at you checking this off already!! 4y
Leftcoastzen @TheAromaofBooks Thx! Sometimes there is the strong urge to read a book you can finish in a day. 4y
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Leftcoastzen
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Welcome to my #bookspin tagged book , and my #doublespin Anne Lamont‘s 3rd book ,Rosie .I think I can manage to read both this month ,Slowness is only 156 pages .

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 4y
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Abailliekaras
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I love Milan Kundera‘s intellect, the way he can express complex ideas simply and his humour & light touch. Interesting thoughts about the pleasure of slowness (or whether people slow down when they‘re happy & want to remember) & current period ‘given over to the demon of speed‘. The ideas, honesty & prose are a joy, but there‘s also casual sexism which I find tiresome. Respect though for the cool cover of this first UK edition. 👌🏼

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DeborahSmall
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#Riotgrams #onewordtitles I stopped counting at 50 still on the one bookcase. I didn't realise how many books I had with one word titles 📚❤️

RinaBrahmbhattBarot How is adultery? Yet to read :) great stack!!! 8y
RiotMom I started Eileen on audible a couple days ago! What a strange story so far. 8y
DeborahSmall @MyBookSwapClub I enjoyed it but it's a bit over the top at times. My favourite Coelho is Eleven Minutes x 8y
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DeborahSmall @RiotMom I loved it! It is strange but brilliant, not to everyone's tastes. I'd imagine it would be more enjoyable to read than to listen to x 8y
RiotMom Yeah, I'm kind of getting that vibe from it. I may end up switching to print just because the narration is good but not super gripping, so I've found myself zoning out a little while listening. 8y
RinaBrahmbhattBarot @DeborahSmall thank you!!! Not read that yet but adding in my TBR as you've considered that to be his best work xoxo 8y
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Abailliekaras
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Sorting out my bookshelves - the shelf in our living room is wall-to-wall TBR 😬📚. I found these Milan Kundera books which I bought second-hand, one has a copy of the newspaper review in it!

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DeborahSmall
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#onewordtitles I could easily have 5 piles like this, but went for a mixing genres Insomnia by Stephen King cut off at bottom and Kangaroo by DH Lawrence at the top ❤️📚

LeahBergen Good ones! 8y
DeborahSmall @LeahBergen so many really good ones I missed! One of my favourites Leviathan!! Summerland! Was...Asylum, god the list goes on 8y
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squarepeginroundhole
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"For love is by definition an unmerited gift; being loved without meriting it is the very proof of real love."

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