kundera milan die langsamkeit
Kundera Milan Die Langsamkeit
Der Schriftsteller Milan und seine Frau Vera ziehen sich fur eine Nacht auf ein franzosisches Landschloss zuruck. Sie suchen Ruhe, treffen aber stattdessen auf die extravaganten Forscher eines Fliegenkongresses. Ganz anders ergeht es dem jungen Adligen aus dem 18. Jahrhundert, der genug Mu?e hat, sich genau in demselben Schloss mit Madame de T. erotischen Spielen hinzugeben. Zwei Paare, zweihundert Jahre voneinander getrennt, suchen dasselbe und finden ganz Unterschiedliches. Ein amusantes Hohelied auf die Kunst der Verfuhrung und die Langsamkeit - ein meisterhaft komponierter Roman.
3490 Руб.
Kundera Milan Immortality
This breathtaking, reverberating survey of human nature finds Kundera still attempting to work out the meaning of life without losing his acute sense of humour. It is one of those great unclassifiable masterpieces that appear once every twenty years or so.
1862 Руб.
Kundera Milan Slowness
Slowness was Milan Kundera’s first novel written in French. Disconcerted 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 ridiculous. As Kundera’s readers would expect, Slowness is at the same time a formidable display of existential analysis. Slowness (and rapidity), discretion (and exhibitionism) are the principal concepts, and those which are to the reader like vital keys for understanding life in our contemporary world.
1692 Руб.
Kundera Milan Identity
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.
2024 Руб.
Kundera Milan Ignorance
In Ignorance, set in contemporary Prague, one of the most distinguished writers of our time takes up the complex and emotionally charged theme of exile and creates from it a literary masterpiece. A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned twenty years earlier when they chose to become exiles. Will they manage to pick up the thread of their strange love story, interrupted almost as soon as it began and then lost in the tides of history? The truth is that after such a long absence ‘their memories no longer match.’ We always believe that our memories coincide with those of the person we loved, that we experienced the same thing. But this is just an illusion as the memory records only ‘an insignificant, minuscule particle’ of the past, ‘and no one knows why it’s this bit and not any other bit.’ We live our lives sunk in a vast forgetting, and we refuse to see it. Only those who return after twenty years, like Ulysses returning to his native Ithaca, can be dazzled and astounded by observing the goddess of ignorance first-hand. Milan Kundera has taken these dizzying concepts of absence, memory, forgetting, and ignorance, and transformed them into material for a novel, masterfully orchestrating them into a polyphonic and moving work.
2024 Руб.
Kundera Milan Laughable Loves
Laughable Loves is a collection of stories that first appeared in print in Prague before 1968, but was then banned. The seven stories are all concerned with love, or rather with the complex erotic games and stratagems employed by women and especially men as they try to come to terms with needs and impulses that can start a terrifying train of events. Sexual attraction is shown as a game that often turns sour, an experience that brings with it painful insights and releases uncertainty, panic, vanity and a constant need for reassurance. Thus a young couple on holiday start a game of pretence that threatens to destroy their relationship, two middle-aged men go in search of girls they don't really want, a young man renews contact with an older woman who feels humiliated by her ageing body, an elderly doctor uses his beautiful wife to increase his attraction and minister to his sexual vanity. In Laughable Loves, Milan Kundera shows himself, once again, as a master of fiction's most graceful illusions and surprises.
1693 Руб.
Kundera Milan Life is Elsewhere
A budding poet and his adoring mother are the central characters of this intriguing early novel by Milan Kundera. He takes us through the young man’s fantasies and love affairs in a characteristic tour de force, alive with wit, eroticism and ideas.
2230 Руб.
Kundera Milan The Festival of Insignificance
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 completely avoiding realism-that's The Festival of Insignificance. Readers who know Kundera's earlier books know that the wish to incorporate an element of the "unserious" in a novel is not at all unexpected of him. In Immortality, Goethe and Hemingway stroll through several chapters together talking and laughing. And in 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." Now, far from watching out, Kundera is finally and fully realizing his old aesthetic dream in this novel that we could easily view as a summation of his whole work. A strange sort of summation. Strange sort of epilogue. Strange sort of laughter, inspired by our time, which is comical because it has lost all sense of humor. What more can we say? Nothing. Just read.
1733 Руб.
Sterne Laurence Tristram Shandy
This ribald, high-spirited novel, whose author was described by Diderot as 'the Rabelais of the English', provoked literary scandal when it was first published in 1760. With its ingenious structure and its exuberant pretence of being an autobiography, Tristram Shandy fascinates like a verbal game of chess. Milan Kundera has said that it is the eighteenth-century novel he loves best.
4461 Руб.
Kundera Milan The Unbearable Lightness of Being
A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon; a man torn between his love for her and his womanising. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals; while her other lover stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives are shaped by choices and events, and everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance and weight – and we feel ‘the unbearable lightness of being’. The Unbearable Lightness of Being encompasses passion and philosophy, infidelity and ideas, the Prague Spring and modern America, political acts and private desires, comedy and tragedy – in fact, all of human existence.
2863 Руб.
Kundera Milan The Unbearable Lightness of Being
A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon - a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanising. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals - while her other lover stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and fortuitous events, and everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance and weight - and we feel 'the unbearable lightness of being'. A masterpiece by one of the world's truly great writers, Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being encompasses passion and philosophy, infidelity and ideas, the Prague Spring and modern America, political acts and private desires, comedy and tragedy - and illuminates all aspects of human existence.
1259 Руб.
Kundera, Milan The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Самые красивые и самые дорогие, самые популярные и самые любимые, самые редкие и самые новаторские, навсегда изменившие облик своих стран и всего мира, оставившие след в искусстве и сами ставшие произведениями искусства... Книга рассказывает о 100 легендарных легковых автомобилях мира.
1196 Руб.
Kundera Milan The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
‘This book is a novel in the form of variations. The various parts follow each other like the various stages of a voyage leading into the interior of a theme, the interior of a thought, the interior of a single, unique situation the understanding of which recedes from my sight into the distance. It is a book about laughter and about forgetting, about forgetting and about Prague, about Prague and about the angels.’ The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the most secret of Kundera’s novels. This new translation is the first to be fully authorized by Milan Kundera.
1880 Руб.
Kundera, Milan The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Самые красивые и самые дорогие, самые популярные и самые любимые, самые редкие и самые новаторские, навсегда изменившие облик своих стран и всего мира, оставившие след в искусстве и сами ставшие произведениями искусства... Книга рассказывает о 100 легендарных легковых автомобилях мира.
1196 Руб.
Hrabal Bohumil I Served the King of England
'Our very best writer today' Milan Kundera Sparkling with comic genius and narrative exuberance, I Served the King of England is a story of how the unbelievable came true. Its remarkable hero, Ditie, is a hotel waiter who rises to become a millionaire and then loses it all again against the backdrop of events in Prague from the German invasion to the victory of Communism. Ditie's fantastic journey intertwines the political and the per
2602 Руб.
Haas Wolf Auferstehung der Toten
In Zell am See geht es etwas langsamer zu als im Rest der Welt. Hier wird man nicht erschossen, sondern tiefgefroren. So ist es einem steinreichen amerikanischen Ehepaar ergangen, das man an einem klirrend kalten Wintermorgen in einem Sessellift findet. Die Polizei bei?t sich an der Sturheit der Zeller schnell die Zahne aus. Licht in diesen Fall kann nur ein Mann wie Privatdetektiv Brenner bringen, ein ehemaliger Polizist, der wegen seiner nervenzermurbenden Langsamkeit aus dem Job geekelt wurde. Brenner hat das Gespur fur den Rhythmus der osterreichischen Provinz. Der Roman erhielt den Deutschen Krimipreis 1997. «So viel Spa?, Weisheit und Spannung um einen wohlfeilen Preis, das gibt’s normal gar nicht.» (Der Standard, Wien)
2874 Руб.