SLOWNESS - Faber

Slowness is Milan Kundera's first novel for nearly five years, and it is also the first he has written in French. Dicsoncerted and enchanted, the reader follows him through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated in time by more than two hundred years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the ridiculous. As Kundera's readers would expect, Slowness is at the same time a formidable display of existential analysis. Slowness, discretion are the principal concepts, and those which are to the reader like vital keys for understanding life in our contemporary world.