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The last novel by the international superstar and author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

''Kundera is the saddest, funniest, and most lovable of authors.'' Times
An artist, clearly one of the best to be found anywhere.'' Salman Rushdie
''Kundera designs fictions of the highest order.'' Ian McEwan

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 avoiding realism - that''s The Festival of Insignificance.

In Kundera''s earlier novel, 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.'' Far from watching out, Kundera finally and fully realises his old aesthetic dream in a novel that we could view as a summati

FESTIVAL OF INSIGNIFICANCE

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    A Paperback / softback by Milan Kundera, Linda Asher

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 7 April 2016
      ISBN-13 9780571316496
      978-0571316496
      ISBN-10 0571316492
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      Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The last novel by the international superstar and author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

      ''Kundera is the saddest, funniest, and most lovable of authors.'' Times
      An artist, clearly one of the best to be found anywhere.'' Salman Rushdie
      ''Kundera designs fictions of the highest order.'' Ian McEwan

      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 avoiding realism - that''s The Festival of Insignificance.

      In Kundera''s earlier novel, 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.'' Far from watching out, Kundera finally and fully realises his old aesthetic dream in a novel that we could view as a summati

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