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* Milan Kundera's most relaxing work
* A "slow" novel focusing on the spiritual life of modern people
* When speed becomes a devil that confuses people's hearts, can the world still rediscover the art of "slowness"?
* A novel that focuses on the "slowness" of modern people's spiritual life, pondering how people can rediscover the art of slowness in an era of pursuit of speed;
* Three stories that interweave time and space, a hilarious life stage, "modern people pursue instant gratification", does this "fast" make us happier?
* A thought-provoking book for the soul: What has technology really brought to humanity? When the world was trapped by the epidemic, did the world "slow down"?
The book comes with customized Milan Kundera themed stickers to create your own unique personality. Kundera's collection "Slowness" is the first novel written in French by Milan Kundera after he immigrated to France. It perfectly blends the virtual and the real, the past and the present.
In the novel, the author and his wife, Vera, spend the weekend at a castle that has been converted into a hotel. While driving on the road, a motorcycle speeds by, prompting the author to reflect on speed. This leads him to recall the story of the noblewoman and the young knight in 18th-century French writer Vivant Denon's novel "Tomorrow Never Comes." Intertwined with this is the absurd evening of a group of modern people: one day in the 20th century, a group of entomologists gather at the castle hotel for a seminar, staging one absurd farce after another.
"Slowness is a sign of happiness." Compared to the weightier topics explored in "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and "Immortality," the theme of "Slowness" seems surprising. It is clearly the lightest of all Kundera's novels, with "not a single serious word" throughout. The author himself once said, "There is not a single serious word in the work."
His works have given me the conviction that humanity will survive, the world will survive, and that everything I believe in, seek, and long for in this world with all my heart will regain its human face.
I am grateful to him because on this tragic day, he has made me realize more strongly than ever that even death is powerless in the face of immortality."
I've only read "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and "A Farewell Waltz," by French author Louis Aragon, and I really enjoyed them. Unlike other Latin American and American writers... The satire in his novels is a bit like black humor, but not entirely, creating a unique flavor.
Mo Yan: A nation and country without memories would have no history. Without memories and history, what would the future represent? According to Kundera, like the young man speeding through the book, "he has been thrown out of the continuity of time, he is outside of time, he has entered a state of ecstasy, he has forgotten his age, his wife, his children, and so he fears nothing, because the source of fear is the future, and so a person liberated from the future is fearless." For me, this person who does not fear the future also has no future.
——Leo Ou-fan Lee

2022-04-30

上海译文出版社

173

9787532789849