Immortality
12 hrs. 29 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Milan Kundera
Author
Milan Kundera
Narrator
Dmitry Orgin
Narrator
Dmitry Orgin
Description
— What will your novel be called?
— “The Unbearable Lightness of Being.”
— But that title, in my opinion, has already been used by someone.
— It’s mine! But then I was wrong. Such a title should have been for the novel I’m writing right now.
Great Goethe is talking with Hemingway; Bettina von Arnim insists on her otherworldly feeling for the great German; Agnes, who has lived for twenty years in a happy marriage, longs for loneliness; and the gesture of an elderly woman in a swimsuit turns her into an enchanting young girl—becoming the thread from which the fabric of “Immortality” is woven.
“What do I feel while reading Kundera? Above all, gratitude! For restoring the traditions and values of the Central European novel…” (Bernard-Henri Lévy)
“There has been talk for a century now about the sunset of European culture. And yet Kundera seems in a hurry to present the world with a vivid example of that sunset in his novel. A mixed feeling from reading it: curiosity and disgust, with traces of compassion.” (Reader)
— “The Unbearable Lightness of Being.”
— But that title, in my opinion, has already been used by someone.
— It’s mine! But then I was wrong. Such a title should have been for the novel I’m writing right now.
Great Goethe is talking with Hemingway; Bettina von Arnim insists on her otherworldly feeling for the great German; Agnes, who has lived for twenty years in a happy marriage, longs for loneliness; and the gesture of an elderly woman in a swimsuit turns her into an enchanting young girl—becoming the thread from which the fabric of “Immortality” is woven.
“What do I feel while reading Kundera? Above all, gratitude! For restoring the traditions and values of the Central European novel…” (Bernard-Henri Lévy)
“There has been talk for a century now about the sunset of European culture. And yet Kundera seems in a hurry to present the world with a vivid example of that sunset in his novel. A mixed feeling from reading it: curiosity and disgust, with traces of compassion.” (Reader)
