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  <title><![CDATA[Immortality]]></title>
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  <default_description>A novel, divided into seven parts and exploring immortality. This is the author's seventh novel. His previous works include &quot;The Joke&quot;, &quot;The Book of Laughter and Forgetting&quot; and &quot;The Unbearable Lightness of Being&quot;. He has written one play, &quot;Jacques and his Master&quot;.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1999</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Milan Kundera]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like Kundra because he doesn’t imprison me in a fastened frame of a classic narration. Reading Kundra seems as if you meet an old friend after ages in a cafe shop, and while she/he relates her / his life story, you zip your coffee, listen to the cafe music, hear some chats and laughs at nabourin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50692">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you could live forever with your spouse in heaven after you pass, would you? &quot;How do you live in a world with which you disagree? How to live with people  when you share neither their suffering nor their joys? When you know that you don't belong among them?&quot;<br/><br/>Agnes and Laura, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7570397">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read Immortality at the height of my love affair with meta, so that reall boosted my opinion, you should know that.  You should also know that this book has one of the best first images of any book I've read.  The rest of the book had it's ups and downs, but i read it two years ago and it is still...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3989759">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of 3 books I would take to a desert island. A beautiful discussion on the nature of our legacy, what we decide to leave or not leave when we die. How that changes in time and how we can not do anything about it. Especially relevant to artists and writers. Delves into the nature of love and famil...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43242706">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I first began this book, I thought of it as &quot;enchantingly odd.&quot; It's not a light read by any means. But I quickly grew mesmerized by the book, in part because Kundera weaves together a brilliant plot while also offering his philosophies on the characters' actions and behaviors. So ins...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6388794">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="15273162">
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Why do we want to be immortal and how can we achieve this? What is the difference between the big and the small immortality? What if we prefer to oppositely slowly erase ourselves to make sure we will not be remembered? These are only a handful of theemes that this novel delves into. From his perspe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15273162">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another book I'd give 4.5 stars to if I could. Kundera writes like a philosopher most of the time, but when he is really good, he writes (prose) like a poet. The line that really jumped at me, and captures the essence of this book in my opinion, is &quot;The emotion of love gives all of us a mislead...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1529216">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74379468">
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not as emotionally involving as <em>Unbearable Lightness</em>, I still enjoyed Kundera's musings and his imaginitive approach to storytelling. He juggles a number of separate, related narratives, but the most interesting one involves the poet and philosopher, Goethe. I particularly enjoyed the dialogue betwe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74379468">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I cringe at the fact that I once defended Milan Kundera -- after laughing so hard I cried at this wonderful essay, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.idlewords.com/2005/11/dating_without_kundera.htm">Dating Without Kundera</a>, I sent it to some literary-minded friends, with a side note stating that it was a great piece of writing despite being wrong about the Czech novelist.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57311085">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="255748">
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  <date_added>Tue Mar 13 11:45:00 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Milan Kundera, if you are out there, marry me!<br/><br/>This book never disappoints. I've read it a few times, and every time (as with all his writing) I find myself entertained by his quirky characterizations and his willingness to take on huge themes of life.  The story begins with Agnes waving ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/255748">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="62487742">
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Absolutely loved this book! Kundera states about half-way through that this book should have been titled The Unbearable Lightness of Being and I completely agree. His most interesting passage regarding this concept was his philosophy on the end of war. He writes, &quot;Frivolity is a radical diet fo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62487742">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43452016">
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    <body><![CDATA[Kundera blows me away with his philosophical rumination/fiction approach.  This is full of existential musings, beautifully written passages, narrative playfulness and the deconstruction of his view of where the ego belongs in the process of creation and professional dealings.   There's something ab...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43452016">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="7858855">
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    <body><![CDATA[binazireeeeeeeeeeee!dar roomanhaye no vagehan binazire baese taAjobe ke nobel nagarfte.albateh man tarjomeye farsisho khondam vali chon peydash nakrdam in aslisho ezafe kardam!]]></body>
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    <review id="48388928">
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an intriguing book. Kundera is playing with narrative and the relations among the author, his creation, and the reader. Characters stop and have a drink with the author, and a friend of the author is the lover of a character. It is ostensibly about immortality in the sense that a great artis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48388928">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1990</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fantastic book (read Spanish translation &quot;Inmortalidad&quot;, published by &quot;Circulo de Lectores&quot;). I never bought a book because it either the author or the book had won an award. But I read the intro to the book in &quot;Circulo de Lectores&quot; magazine and I thought it could be in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40001964">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44153048">
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    <body><![CDATA[* rectif // ii dau doua stele. <br/><br/>* am sa reimprumut cartea numai ca sa imi scriu cateva paragrafe care mi'au placut.]]></body>
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    <review id="50758976">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jaena Rae]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I spent more time with this book than I ever did with &quot;The Unbearable Lightness of Being,&quot; which is undoubtedly a favorite of mine. And like many, I couldn't help comparing &quot;Immortality&quot; to it. Although there are many familiar elements, do not expect so much of the same.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50758976">more...</a>]]></body>
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