Search Results for: “Milan Kundera”

Author: Milan KunderaFormat: Paperback, 127mm x 196mm, 131g, 160 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 1999Sometimes - perhaps only for an instant - we fail to recognise a companion; for...

The new novel from Milan Kundera 'Enchanting . it explores all aspects of a declining civilisation without taking any of them too seriously . In this novel of Flaubertian seduction,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Author: Milan Kundera Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 From the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, an unexpected and enchanting novel--the culmination of his life's...

'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,...

89 Words, published in 1985, is an expanded version of the dictionary of sorts that readers encountered in The Art of the Novel, and comprises a fascinating and rigorous interrogation...

The Joke , Milan Kundera's first novel, gained him a huge following in his own country and launched his worldwide literary reputation. In his foreword Kundera explains why this completely...

89 Words, published in 1985, is an expanded version of the dictionary of sorts that readers encountered in The Art of the Novel, and comprises a fascinating and rigorous interrogation...

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...

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...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...

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....

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...

Author: Milan Kundera Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 'The people of Central Europe cannot be separated from European history; they cannot exist outside it; but they represent the wrong...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...

Published simultaneously with Identity, his new novel, here is a masterful new translation of Milan Kundera's most brilliantly plotted and sheerly entertaining novel -- a dark farce of sex, murder,...

Author: Milan Kundera Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 48 A chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman, now a widow, who escaped him fifteen...

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...

A #1 bestseller in France, this modern masterpiece by the distinguished author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being presents a tremendously entertaining, wickedly funny satire on contemporary life. Simultaneously telling...

'The people of Central Europe cannot be separated from European history; they cannot exist outside it; but they represent the wrong side of this history; they are its victims and...

Secondhand Literary & Historical Fiction Bargain Box — 18 Books Eighteen books, one irresistible stack. This carefully curated collection spans continents and centuries — from revolutionary Cuba to the colonial...

'The people of Central Europe cannot be separated from European history; they cannot exist outside it; but they represent the wrong side of this history; they are its victims and...

A brilliant collection of conversations and essays about writers and writing from Philip Roth, reissued in electric new backlist style for October 2016 Philip Roth is the voice of our...

This book examines the opinions and influences, idiosyncrasies and personalities of writers as diverse as Shakespeare and Kingsley Amis, Cervantes and Milan Kundera. Professor Miller discusses and defends the profession...

Reminiscent of the novels of Milan Kundera and Nabokov this is the mesmerising, universal story of what happens to our dreams when we grow up. Stepping out into the dusk...

A new selection of foundational works from the influential philosopher who developed the theory of mimetic desire Rene Girard eludes easy categories, bridging the fields of literary criticism, anthropology, sociology,...

In August 1939, a ship flying the Polish flag docked in Buenos Aires. On board was a delegation of businessmen, diplomats and journalists. Days later, the captain received orders to...

p>Welcome to the heart of Italian wealth and style, where the removal of sunglasses is a surgical procedure and popping to the shops without stillies is simply illegal. As usual...

Author: Anouska Jones Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Dogs have a way of making our lives feel complete. They're there for us through good times and bad,...

A wide-ranging and eclectic collection of short stories on the theme of love in its various forms: romantic, erotic, impossible, undying and exhausted. No other aspect of the human experience...

A deep, practical anatomy of the novel from 'the strongest ... literary critic we have' (New York Review of Books) Rediscover this deep, practical anatomy of the novel from 'the...

The evolution of the city of Milan and its transformation over the last fifty years Inspiring Cities is a fascinating volume which explores the theme of the city. Through the...

Those who think otherwise, though they may fail, deserve our attention, says H. Stuart Hughes. In Sophisticated Rebels , Hughes shows what happened to the revolutionary spirit after the 1968...

From "Ovid" to "Malcolm X", "The Ladies Magazine" to 'Punch", Mary Wollstone-craft to Anita Loos, William Hazlitt to D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Carlyle to Brett Easton Ellis, Fanny Burney to...

Through a series of carefully constructed themes, ranging from the boy as passive love object to soldier boys, from the boy under the female gaze to "what is a boy?",...

NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE AND BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2018 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOKS OF 2018 CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS 'MOST ANTICIPATED FICTION BOOKS OF 2018' '(A) beautiful book,...