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This is my third Kundera, and he sure does tread the same waters, thematically. But they're large and reinterpretable (memory, sex, laughter, the unbearable-ness of living).
The way he writes (the authorial voice comes and goes, sometimes we're watching action, sometimes in a character's head, sometimes being told by the author what to think or that the author isn't sure what he thinks) lends itself perfectly to the sort of revisiting he does. It's like he's an artist, with half a dozen sculptur ...more
The way he writes (the authorial voice comes and goes, sometimes we're watching action, sometimes in a character's head, sometimes being told by the author what to think or that the author isn't sure what he thinks) lends itself perfectly to the sort of revisiting he does. It's like he's an artist, with half a dozen sculptur ...more
At first I thought this was going to be the first Milan Kundera book that I could really appreciate, but my heart started sinking about two-thirds in, and it hit the bottom near the end.
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