Description
Identity
Paperback
by Kundera, Milan
- Publisher : Faber & Faber (1999), Edition: Main, 160 pages
- Language : English
- Paperback :
- ISBN-10 : 571195679
- ISBN-13 : 9780571195671
- Weight : 0.135
- Dimensions : 19.6×0.9×12.5 cm
Identity by Milan Kundera (1999)
Reviews
Average Rating:
3.7 rating based on 31,637 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 0571195679
ISBN-13: 9780571195671
Goodreads: 57892400
Author(s):
Publisher: Faber Faber
Published: 4/19/1999
Sometimes - perhaps only for an instant - we fail to recognise 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 the 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. Profound, sad and disquieting but above all a love story, Identity provides further proof of Kundera's astonishing gifts as a novelist.
3.7 rating based on 31,637 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 0571195679
ISBN-13: 9780571195671
Goodreads: 57892400
Author(s):
Published: 4/19/1999
Sometimes - perhaps only for an instant - we fail to recognise 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 the 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. Profound, sad and disquieting but above all a love story, Identity provides further proof of Kundera's astonishing gifts as a novelist.
