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Encounter by Milan Kundera
$38.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
With the same dazzling mix of emotion and idea that characterizes his novels he illuminates the art and artists who remain important to him and whose work helps us better understand the world. An astute and brilliant reader of fiction, Kundera applies these same gifts to the reading of Francis Bacon's p ...Show more
Farewell Waltz by Milan Kundera; Aaron Asher (Translator)
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
In this dark farce of a novel, set in an old-fashioned Central European spa town, eight characters are swept up in an accelerating dance: a pretty nurse and her repairman boyfriend; an oddball gynecologist; a rich American (at once saint and Don Juan); a popular trumpeter and his beautiful, obsessively ...Show more
Festival of Insignificance by Milan Kundera
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
This is the new novel from Milan Kundera. "Enchanting...it explores all aspects of a declining civilisation without taking any of them too seriously...In this novel of Flaubertian seduction, free of blame and guilt, insignificance is the very essence of life." (La Repubblica). Casting light on the most ...Show more
Identity by Milan Kundera
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Milan Kundera's Identity  translated from the French by Linda Asher. 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. That also happens with couples -- indeed, above all wi ...Show more
Ignorance by Milan Kundera
$32.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
In Ignorance, set in contemporary Prague, one of the most distinguished writers of our time takes up the complex and emotionally charged theme of exile and creates from it a literary masterpiece. A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned twenty years ea ...Show more
Immortality by Milan Kundera
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that cre-ates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agn#65533;s becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that ch ...Show more
Laughable Loves by Milan Kundera
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Milan Kundera is a master of graceful illusion and illuminating surprise. In one of these stories a young man and his girlfriend pretend that she is a stranger he picked up on the road--only to become strangers to each other in reality as their game proceeds. In another a teacher fakes piety in order to ...Show more
Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead (Faber Stories) by Milan Kundera
$9.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
A chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman, now a widow, who escaped him fifteen years earlier. Neither of them doubts that the day will end in disgust, but for one intimate moment each finds a way to overcome mortality. Written in 1969, before Milan Kundera was known to E ...Show more
Life is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
The author initially intended to call this novel The Lyrical Age. The lyrical age, according to Kundera, is youth, and this novel, above all, is an epic of adolescence; an ironic epic that tenderly erodes sacrosanct values: childhood, motherhood, revolution, and even poetry. Jaromil is in fact a poet. H ...Show more
Slowness by Milan Kundera
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
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 mor ...Show more
The Art of the Novel by Milan Kundera
$32.95 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
The classic of literary criticism from one of the world's greatest novelists In seven independent, but closely related chapters, Milan Kundera presents his personal conception of the European novel, which he describes as 'an art born of the laughter of God'.
The Art of the Novel by Milan Kundera
$24.95 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Reading Level: very good