Slowness

Fun and breezy, but it's Kundera, so only superficially so. The connection between slowness and remembering (savoring?) and quickness and forgetting (shunning?). The irrelevance of secrecy and discretion outside of time, and how our memory re-writes (or tries to rewrite) perception of events, people. The dance of conversation, moral judo, and Epicurean paradise of...more

Fun and breezy, but it's Kundera, so only superficially so. The connection between slowness and remembering (savoring?) and quickness and forgetting (shunning?). The irrelevance of secrecy and discretion outside of time, and how our memory re-writes (or tries to rewrite) perception of events, people. The dance of conversation, moral judo, and Epicurean paradise of pleasure versus the revolt against the human condition, which importantly, we did not choose. What's not to love here? Vulgar, but not for the shock value. Blatant sexism is a bit off-putting, but I can't say he's exactly a hater so much as certainly scorned, Kundera, that is.   hide

This was the first book of Kundera that I read. Since then he is my favourite writer. Because of his style and stories that he tells.

Brief and insightful. Another great one by Kundera.

Milan Kundera is considered the first postmodern literary writer. In this book, he interweaves three stories from three time periods at villa that has been converted into a hotel. He juxtaposes different realities to create a whimsical book. Slowness is a departure from his earlier, darker work.

its slow..but great quality!

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Interesting POV. At times, made me laugh out loud. Strange and utterly readable

A novella, first published in French, that well contrasts the speed of life and the ability to enjoy it, in all of it's ambiguity. Also, introduces the entertaining concept of public figures as "dancers".

La lenteur , on sent au fil des pages la moiteur, la sensualité,