Immortality

12 hrs. 29 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author Milan Kundera

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)