Immortality: the Works of Milan Kundera Series (2022 Edition)
About This Novel
"Immortality is an unworthy fantasy, an empty word, a trace of wind that people chase with butterfly nets..." A novel about road and betrayal, accident and necessity, it is a model of Kundera's musical novel. "Immortality" is Milan Kundera's masterpiece novel and a model of Kundera's musical novel art. The novel alternately tells three stories: the first story is about Agnès, a middle-aged woman living in Paris and her hometown in Switzerland, who decides to withdraw from her trivial daily life and entanglement with the past, and prepares to live alone; the second story is about the relationship between the elderly poet Goethe and his young lover Bettina; the third story is about the dissolute life of a man nicknamed Rubens. The three stories proceed alternately and connect one proposition after another: self, hometown, happiness, freedom, inevitability and contingency, big immortality and small immortality, romance and debauchery, image, youth, eternal female worship, etc.
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