Slow (milan Kundera Works Series·2022 Edition)
About This Novel
"Slow" is Milan Kundera's first novel written in French after immigrating to France. It perfectly integrates fiction and reality, past and present. In the novel, the author and his wife Vera go to a castle that has been converted into a hotel for the weekend. While driving on the road, a motorcycle speeds past, which arouses the author's thoughts on speed. From this, he recalled the story of the noble lady and the young knight in the novel "Tomorrow Never Comes" by the 18th century French writer Vivant Denon. Intertwined with it is the absurd night of a group of modern people: One day in the 20th century, a group of entomologists gathered at the Castle Hotel for a seminar, and staged one ridiculous farce after another. "Slowness is a sign of happiness." Compared with the heavy topics discussed in "The Unbearable Lightness of Life" and "Immortality", the theme of "Slowness" seems surprising. It is obviously the most light-hearted novel among all Kundera's works, with "not a single serious word" throughout the novel. The author himself once said: "There is not a single serious word in the work."
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