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 nabouring tables, look at the peddlers at side walk, or a passing tramvay, … as life is flowing around, ….

کوندرا را به این دلیل بسیار دوست دارم که مرا در چهارچوب بسته ی یک روایت زندانی نمی کند. خواندن کونرا مث More...

I’m not going to give this book a “star” rating because can’t decide on one. There were parts of the novel that I found fascinating, parts that were completely confusing, and parts that were downright irrelevant. The beginning of the novel is very engaging. It sucks the reader right in. I was immediately interested in Kundera’s philosophy. Case in point: “There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of th More...

If you could live forever with your spouse in heaven after you pass, would you? "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?"

Agnes and Laura, sisters with opposite traits ground Kundera's novel of variations as he weaves fantasized personalities of the past like Goethe and Hemingway along with himself and friend as narrator to create opportunities to think about More...

انا كما اري نفسي
انا كما يراني الاخر

الرواية تناقش صراع الانا(تين) و تفسر كيف يمكن ان يتحول البعض لعبيد خلودهم في وعي الاخرين

ميلان كونديرا ساحر و التفاصيل ممتعة جدا
مشهد من الرواية
أنايس (بطلة الرواية) قبل ان تموت يسألها الملاك ان كانت ترغب في ان تعيش مع زوجها (بول) في حياتها الأبدية.. ترغب (أنايس) في الرفض لكن بول يدخل الغرفة قبل ان تجيب فتضطر ان توافق علي الحياة معه بشكل ابدي.

هل من الممكن ان ييخضع قرار كالحياة الابدية مع زوج لا تحبه للخجل؟ الكثير من المشاهد الرائعة في الرواية

الترجمة العربية لروز م More...

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 with me. A lot of the musings and theories Kundera writes about still bouce around in my head. At the time I thought them less than accurate, but since I have come to become a believer (which is to say More...

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 families while he is at it. It would take a life time to discuss this book.

يجعلك في حالة تشويش في البداية، و كأنه يلاعبك "نط الحبلة" يعطيك طرف الخيط
و يحتفظ بالآخر، يوهمك بأنك تعرف ما تؤل عليه القصة، و من ثم يفاجئك بإعطائك طرف خيط واحدا تلو الأخر
تكف عن اللعب، و تنهمك بفهم فلسفة الحياة من وجهة نظر كويندرا ...

رواية درب، لكل خطوة في الدرب متعة و معرفة و حكمة و جمال تكتشفه في الرحلة
ليست رواية طريق، تبدأ بنقطة و تنتهي بنهاية ... المهم الرحلة في الدرب و ليس الوصول لنهاية الطريق فقط

في معظم الروايات يكون هناك بطل وحيد او بطلان، أما في هذه الرواية- روايات كويندرا مجملا-كل شخصية More...

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 themes that this novel delves into. From his perspective as an author and by contrasting imaginary and historical characters, Kundera created a universe of whining roads with unexpected sights at every turn. Symbolic and full of signs like the one from More...

When I first began this book, I thought of it as "enchantingly odd." 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 instead of merely describing what people do (which would be interesting enough), he beautifully describes the enduring meaning and themes of these behaviors. For example, in one part, a character decides he no lon More...

Kundera is a tremendously original writer. His narrative style is very unique and the appeal of his novels lie not on the plots, which are simple and mundane, but on the reflections and considerations he weaves around them, which are anything but. His analysis of mankind's needs, wants and desires are deep and philosophical but far from cold and detached; much to the contrary. His observations are conveyed through a prose that coats them with an indescribable beauty that stirs both mind and hear More...

I have to say I was won over by the book. At first, it annoyed me -- I thought Kundera was trying to be clever. But then as I continued reading I realised the overall structure of the novel, and I realised he wasn't trying to be clever: he was sincerely trying to understand desire and love. Kundera is very intelligent and it shows -- there is a lot one could think about with regards to love and desire -- a lot of interesting ideas in the novel which he tries to understand. He is not really the m More...

I absolutely loved Milan Kundera’s Immortality, because of his beautiful poet-like prose and the way the themes and ideas intertwine in each of the plots.
It all starts with a flirtatious and girlish wave that an old woman makes to her swimming instructor that lets the rest of the novel develop and come into play.
Kundera impeccably offered his philosophies about the characters' actions and behaviors, while finding meaning and themes in each.
The lightness and easiness of following the plot and More...

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 "The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other." A bit cynical perhaps but understandable given the context of Kundera's life and writing, and not necessarily untrue. Like many of other Kundera's books, it is full of c More...

อมตะ-มิลาน คุนเดอรา

เรื่องของเรื่องคือเรายังอ่านหนังสือเล่มนี้ไม่จบ แต่ครึ่งเล่มก็รู้สึกได้ว่าเป็นหนังสือที่ดี อย่างน้อยก็เข้าใจทำไมคนจำนวนมากถึงหลงรักตานี่กันนัก เราสงสัยว่าในชีวิตห้าสิบหกสิบปี เขาใช้เวลาอ่านหนังสือเท่าไหร่ คนที่จะเขียนนวนิยายได้ขนาดนี้ต้องมีคลังความรู้มหาศาล ไม่ก็สามารเลือกสรรและเข้าถึงข้อมูลชั้นดีได้ แต่อย่างว่า นี่มันกุนเดอรานี่ เขาอาจจะนั่งเทียนเอาทั้งหมดนั่นก็ได้ ขนาด 'ผม' ยังนั่งเทียนเล่าเรื่องมาสองร้อยหน้าแล้ว ประสาอะไรกับเกอเธ่และชู้รัก คงมีบางเรื่องที่จริง และบางเรื่องท More...

رواية مثيرة للاهتمام, تمت كتابتها بأسلوب متميز يجعل من الصعب الاقتباس منها أو روايتها, فلابديل عن قرائتها كاملة ليسير القارئ في الدرب مستمتعاً بكل مشهد ومتأملاً بكل فكرة

Il Kundera autore e il Kundera personaggio si fondono, giocano con il lettore. Tutto il libro si potrebbe quasi definire una specie degradata di flusso di coscienza, di cui serba alcune caratteristiche (la discontinuità spazio-temporale in primis) e perdendone altre (ne è la prova il completo distacco dallo stile di Virginia Woolf o di Joyce, specialmente nel soliloquio di Molly).
Lo stesso Kundera agens lo definisce un libro "impossibile da raccontare".
Molto particolare l'ipotesi secondo cui c More...

"The fight for is always connected with the fight against, and the preposition "for" is always forgotten in the context of the fight in favor of the preposition "against."

"It seemed unbearable to her to cry in front of everyone; she therefore put the Adagio on the record player and listened to it. Once, twice, three times. The music reminded her of her Father and she wept. But after the Adagio had resounded through the room eight, nine times, thirteen times, she found it no more moving than if More...

كُنت أخشى أن تكون أغلب أعمال كونديرا على شاكلة الخفة الغير محتملة. عندها, قد أطوي صفحة كونديرا بالتمام. كنت أقلب قبل أيام بعض أعمال كونديرا وتذكرت العمل الأدبي الذي حصلت عليه من معرض الرياض قبل سنتين ولم أقرأ عنه شيئاً من ذلك اليوم: أقصد رواية الخُلود. لن أنكر أن ميلان كونيدرا هذه المرة صدمني, وأنا أطوي رواية الخلود الآن, أقسى من المرة الماضية, ولكن هذه المرة بإعجاب فائق. بل لا أبالغ أن حدسي الذي قال أن من يكتب فصل ابتسامة كارينينا في الخفة الغير محتملة للكينونة هو مجنون وعبقري, وبالفعل: كونديرا More...

Libro complejo y avasallante. Kundera mezcla 4 historias con un ensayo sobre la inmortalidad. Al inicio es complicado encontrar las relaciones entre las diferentes historias. Parece incluso que son temas independientes y separados. Al cabo de unos cuantos capítulos entonces se encuentran las relaciones secretas y nacen nuevas historias. Es un libro que necesita ser leído 2 o más veces para ser entendido medianamente.

Grandes escenarios, que uno mismo ha vivido en carne propia. Por ejemplo:

Debo s

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الخلود .. أجدها رائعة .. من الكتب التي تتحول عباراتها الى خالدات في رأسك ولن تكفّ عن التفكير فيها إلا بعد فترة ...

كما قال كونديرا :
اقتباس هذه الرواية متعذر , حماية لها , بعبارة أخرى طريقة تجعلها غير قابلة لأن تروى. لا يمكن لأحد أن يحدثك عنها يجب أن تخوض تجربتك الخاصة معها ,,


مقاطع وعبارات لا تنسى من الخلود :


اليس هناك سوى شيء واحد نرغب فيه جميعاً بعمق، أن يعتبرنا العالم بأسره خطاةً كباراً!! أن تقابل عيوبنا بوابل المطر المدرار، بالعواصف، بالأعاصير.


الحركة أشد فردية من الفرد ولكي نقول ذلك على نحو More...

I have absoultely adored every other book by Kundera that I've read but I just didn't care for this one at all. It started quite well with an interesting look at the way we are being photographed constantly and the way people long after immortality of some sort. The main character Agnes was quite intersting in her hatred of being constantly surronded by people. The first few pages were very beautifully done. But then I found I was starting to loose interest. For the book was almost a collection More...

This was my first time reading Kundera. I picked it up in a bookstore on a whim and was completely enthralled. This author has a way of saying things I've always wanted to say, but never found the words to do so. He has a talent for observation that is cleverly, if not blatantly, philosophical. He's also very funny.
But enough about him, since one of his main points is that we all concern ourselves way too much with the personal lives of creative artists rather than their actual work. Hence, I s More...

I read book review and decided I was going to love it - in my enthusiasm about a year ago. Finally I borrowed from the library.

It is a novel, exploring immortality. The first 50 pages were enchanting. The book starts with a gesture - finite number of gestures in an infinite number of humans and Agnes. Agnes, her husband, sister, father, family and her daughter - all metaphysical creations of the author as he goes through immortality – detours and explains the concept. Enchantment dries out after More...

Not a perfect book -- indeed it seems that Kundera deliberately sought imperfection in forming the structure and the weave of the themes of the book -- but the sheer maturity of this novel, its uncompromising quest to say something true, and such a quest's inevitable companion, humor: for all this and ineffably more, I loved this book.

I didn't the first time I read it. Then I was annoyed by Kundera's postmodern antics; this time, I found something almost emotional in the way he visits his own s More...

Not as emotionally involving as Unbearable Lightness, 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 between Goethe's ghost and Hemingway's ghost in heaven. Unfortunately, the purely fictional characters didn't grab me in the same way.

Ultimately, the characters and their stories weren't as compelling as t More...

I read this book when it came out and recently I felt the urge to
read it again. I remembered bits and pieces, but large chunks are
missing.

Once again, Kundera is exploring the human psyche using strongly
typed characters that exemplify the aspects he wants to cover. This
one is interesting in that the author is himself a character in the
novel. He starts by describing how he got the idea for his main
character, fleshes it out with secondary characters, and by the
time we reach the end, he is actually More...

This is the worst book I have ever read. The writing slips crazily between standard narrative, 4th wall conversational, and unfocused observations. The characters, what little of them there is, are unlikable and bland, except for a small portion of the book revolving around a (real?) conversation between Beethoven and Goethe. I'm not sure if it was remotely based on fact but the writer intends it to be interpreted as factual regardless (I'm reminded of Michael Crichton). Having finished the book More...

this will be the 4th kundera for me and the 2nd of 2012.

an eye-narrator, waiting for professor avenarius on the top floor of a high-rise in paris. the gesture of a woman who had taken swimming lessons in a nearby pool. a quote: there is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. yes. agnes.

the book is divided into seven parts:
part one: the face, chapters numbered
part two: immortality, numbered chapters/section
part 3: fighting, chapter/sections are titled
the sisters
the body
addit More...

Post-modern literature sometimes get in the way of a certain kind of jaded reader's appreciation of a novel, especially if the reader is no longer enamored of the idea of the author or the author's creative process being a kind of character in the story. For this reader, that was not the case. I found the plot be jarring at times, with its leaps into an imagined meeting between Goethe and Hemingway in the hereafter and its numerous philosophical musings, but eventually settled into the rhythm of More...

" ما لا يُطاقُ في الحياة ليس أن تكون , بل أن تكون أناك !
العيش , ليس في ذلك أيّه سعادة .
أن تعيش : هو أن تحمل أناك المتألّمة عبر العالم .
أمّا الكينونة , فالكينونة سعادة .
أن تكون : يعني أن تتحوّل إلى نبع , فسقيّة من الحجر يهطلل فيها الكون مثل مطر دافئ ... ! "
ميلان كونديرا المغرقة في المتعة و الأسرار و الكشف و الحقيقة و الدهشة , المداعب للعبث , الراني نحو الخلود !
من كمبيوتر الخالق , إلى خدعة الحياء الألذّ , إلى معنى الطرح و الجمع في " الأنا " , إلى السرّ المستكنّ في حركة لا معنى لها إلّا أن تهامس More...