kundera milan the festival of insignificance
Kundera Milan The Festival of Insignificance
Casting light on the most serious of problems and at the same time saying not one serious sentence; being fascinated by the reality of the contemporary world and at the same time completely avoiding realism-that's The Festival of Insignificance. Readers who know Kundera's earlier books know that the wish to incorporate an element of the "unserious" in a novel is not at all unexpected of him. In Immortality, Goethe and Hemingway stroll through several chapters together talking and laughing. And in Slowness, Vera, the author's wife, says to her husband: "you've often told me you meant to write a book one day that would have not a single serious word in it... I warn you: watch out. Your enemies are lying in wait." Now, far from watching out, Kundera is finally and fully realizing his old aesthetic dream in this novel that we could easily view as a summation of his whole work. A strange sort of summation. Strange sort of epilogue. Strange sort of laughter, inspired by our time, which is comical because it has lost all sense of humor. What more can we say? Nothing. Just read.
1733 Руб.
Kundera M. The Festival of Insignificance. A Novel
Casting light on the most serious of problems and at the same time saying not one serious sentence; being fascinated by the reality of the contemporary world and at the same time completely avoiding realism - that's The Festival of Insignificance.
663 Руб.
Kundera M. The Festival of Insignificance. A Novel
Casting light on the most serious of problems and at the same time saying not one serious sentence; being fascinated by the reality of the contemporary world and at the same time completely avoiding realism - that's The Festival of Insignificance.
663 Руб.
Kundera Milan Life is Elsewhere
A budding poet and his adoring mother are the central characters of this intriguing early novel by Milan Kundera. He takes us through the young man’s fantasies and love affairs in a characteristic tour de force, alive with wit, eroticism and ideas.
2230 Руб.
Sterne Laurence Tristram Shandy
This ribald, high-spirited novel, whose author was described by Diderot as 'the Rabelais of the English', provoked literary scandal when it was first published in 1760. With its ingenious structure and its exuberant pretence of being an autobiography, Tristram Shandy fascinates like a verbal game of chess. Milan Kundera has said that it is the eighteenth-century novel he loves best.
4461 Руб.
Hrabal Bohumil I Served the King of England
'Our very best writer today' Milan Kundera Sparkling with comic genius and narrative exuberance, I Served the King of England is a story of how the unbelievable came true. Its remarkable hero, Ditie, is a hotel waiter who rises to become a millionaire and then loses it all again against the backdrop of events in Prague from the German invasion to the victory of Communism. Ditie's fantastic journey intertwines the political and the per
2602 Руб.
Kundera Milan The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
‘This book is a novel in the form of variations. The various parts follow each other like the various stages of a voyage leading into the interior of a theme, the interior of a thought, the interior of a single, unique situation the understanding of which recedes from my sight into the distance. It is a book about laughter and about forgetting, about forgetting and about Prague, about Prague and about the angels.’ The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the most secret of Kundera’s novels. This new translation is the first to be fully authorized by Milan Kundera.
1880 Руб.
Roth Philip Reading Myself and Others
Philip Roth's writing career spans a remarkable five decades, a period that has seen him rise to become one of the greatest chroniclers of post-war American life. Collected here are some of the finest interviews, essays and articles discussing his own fiction and the range of controversies that it sparked, including his long interview with the Paris Review. Here too are Roth's writings on American fiction, Milan Kundera, baseball, and his deep admiration for Franz Kafka. Coursing through each of these pieces is the Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness that have defined Roth's writing for half a century.
3387 Руб.
Kundera Milan The Unbearable Lightness of Being
A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon - a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanising. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals - while her other lover stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and fortuitous events, and everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance and weight - and we feel 'the unbearable lightness of being'. A masterpiece by one of the world's truly great writers, Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being encompasses passion and philosophy, infidelity and ideas, the Prague Spring and modern America, political acts and private desires, comedy and tragedy - and illuminates all aspects of human existence.
1259 Руб.
Kundera Milan The Unbearable Lightness of Being
A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon; a man torn between his love for her and his womanising. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals; while her other lover stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives are shaped by choices and events, and everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance and weight – and we feel ‘the unbearable lightness of being’. The Unbearable Lightness of Being encompasses passion and philosophy, infidelity and ideas, the Prague Spring and modern America, political acts and private desires, comedy and tragedy – in fact, all of human existence.
2863 Руб.
Kundera, Milan The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Самые красивые и самые дорогие, самые популярные и самые любимые, самые редкие и самые новаторские, навсегда изменившие облик своих стран и всего мира, оставившие след в искусстве и сами ставшие произведениями искусства... Книга рассказывает о 100 легендарных легковых автомобилях мира.
1196 Руб.
Kundera, Milan The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Самые красивые и самые дорогие, самые популярные и самые любимые, самые редкие и самые новаторские, навсегда изменившие облик своих стран и всего мира, оставившие след в искусстве и сами ставшие произведениями искусства... Книга рассказывает о 100 легендарных легковых автомобилях мира.
1196 Руб.
Chamoiseau Patrick The Old Slave and the Mastiff
A profoundly unsettling story of a plantation slave's desperate escape into a rainforest beyond human control, with his master and a ferocious dog on his heels. This flight to freedom takes them on a journey that will transform them all, as the overwhelming physical presence of the forest and its dense primeval wilderness reshapes reality and time itself. In the darkness, the old man grapples with the spirits of all those who have gone before him; the knowledge that the past is always with us, and the injustice that can cry out from beyond the grave. From a Prix Goncourt writer hailed by Milan Kundera as the "heir of Joyce and Kafka," The Old Slave and the Mastiff fearlessly portrays the demonic cruelties of the slave trade and its human costs - a wise, loving tribute to the Creole culture of Martinique, and a vividly told journey into the heart of Caribbean history and human endurance.
2120 Руб.
Kundera Milan Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. A chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman, now a widow, who escaped him fifteen years earlier. Neither of them doubts that the day will end in disgust, but for one intimate moment each finds a way to overcome mortality. Written in 1969, before Milan Kundera was known to English-speaking readers, this story renders male and female characters painful equals, and prompted Philip Roth to admire its ‘detached Chekhovian tenderness’. Bringing together past, present and future in our ninetieth year, Faber Stories is a celebratory compendium of collectable work.
912 Руб.
Kundera Milan Immortality
This breathtaking, reverberating survey of human nature finds Kundera still attempting to work out the meaning of life without losing his acute sense of humour. It is one of those great unclassifiable masterpieces that appear once every twenty years or so.
1862 Руб.
Журавлев В. Век Зальцбургского фестиваля
В 2020 году исполнилось 100 лет самому знаменитому музыкальному фестивалю мира в Зальцбурге. Из этой книги вы узнаете, как фестиваль создавался и менялся со временем, ведь его возглавляли самые выдающиеся музыканты. Книга снабжена списком всех оперных постановок фестиваля за минувшие сто лет, статьями автора разных лет, которые позволят вам почувствовать атмосферу последних десятилетий Зальцбургского фестиваля. Это практический путеводитель для тех, кто собирается открыть для себя фестиваль.эпохи. 2020 marked the 100th anniversary of the world’s most famous music festival in Salzburg. From this book, you will learn how the festival was established and how it’s been changing over time, since it was headed by the most outstanding musicians. The book contains a list of all the opera productions of the festival over the past hundred years, the author’s articles of different years, which will allow you to feel the atmosphere of the last decades of the Salzburg Festival. This is a practical guide for anyone looking to get to know about the festival.
1409 Руб.