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Identity : A Novel by Milan Kundera (1999, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100060930314
ISBN-139780060930318
eBay Product ID (ePID)952197
Product Key Features
Book TitleIdentity : a Novel
Number of Pages176 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1999
TopicPsychological, General, Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorMilan Kundera
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight5.6 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN97-031907
Reviews"Arresting. In its brevity and unity of plot it surpasses even his previous book, Slowness." -- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times "Curiously absorbing, with a melancholy charm." -- Wall Street Journal "[Kundera's] way of imagining himself into the minds of women in a state of love and desire is remarkable." -- Boston Globe "A beguiling meditation on the illusions of self-image and desire....meant to be savored, pleasurably and thoughtfully, like a fine cognac." -- Time Out New York "Kundera, master of the twosome, finds erotic and existential threads everywhere in daily behavior. Like his previous books, Identity is a cluster of jeweled observations. . . . But Identity has a special charm: suspense. . . . [It] gets us turning the pages in excitement and alarm, and Kundera's wit keeps us turning them to the very end, through love's dark night of the soul and out again into a precarious sunlight." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Its allegory of love left me shivering with an ambiguous, indefinable, yet strong sense of evil." -- Washington Post Book World "A fervent and compelling romance, a moving fable about the anxieties of love and separateness." -- Baltimore Sun "A twisting, teasing labyrinthine story of detection." -- Times Literary Supplement "Insightful. . . Kundera lucidly discloses the psychological obsessions of the two lovers and shows how these obsessions lead to repeated miscommunications between them." -- New York Times Book Review
Synopsis"Kundera, master of the twosome, finds erotic and existential threads everywhere in daily behavior. Like his previous books, Identity is a cluster of jeweled observations. . . . But Identity has a special charm: suspense. . . . [It] gets us turning the pages in excitement and alarm, and Kundera's wit keeps us turning them to the very end." -- San Francisco Chronicle In a narrative as intense as it is brief, a moment of confusion sets in motion a complex chain of events which forces the reader to cross and recross the divide between fantasy and reality. Sometimes--perhaps only for an instant--we fail to recognize a companion; for a moment their identity ceases to exist, and thus we come to doubt our own. The effect is at its most acute in a couple, where our existence is given meaning by our perception of a lover, and theirs of us. With his astonishing skill at building on and out from the significant moment, Milan Kundera has placed such a situation and the resulting wave of panic at the core of this novel. Hailed as a "a fervent and compelling romance, a moving fable about the anxieties of love and separateness" (Baltimore Sun), it is not to be missed., Sometimes--perhaps only for an instant--we fail to recognize a companion; for a moment their identity ceases to exist, and thus we come to doubt our own. The effect is at its most acute in a couple, where our existence is given meaning by our perception of a lover, and theirs of us. With his astonishing skill at building on and out from the significant moment, Kundera has placed such a situation and the resulting wave of panic at the core of his new novel. In a narrative as intense as it is brief, a moment of confusion sets in motion a complex chain of events which forces the reader to cross and recross the divide between fantasy and reality.
LC Classification NumberPQ2671.U4713413 1998
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- Feb 28, 2017
Should've known better.
The physical condition of this book is excellent. The content matter itself, is way out of my range. The only philosophy that I understand is more along the lines of Dr. Seuss/Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
