{"product_id":"the-festival-of-insignificance","title":"Milan Kundera: The Festival of Insignificance [2016] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe last novel by the international superstar and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Unbearable Lightness of Being.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Kundera is the saddest, funniest, and most lovable of authors.' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCasting 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Festival of Insignificance\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 \u003ci\u003eImmortality\u003c\/i\u003e, Goethe and Hemingway stroll through several chapters together talking and laughing. And in \u003ci\u003eSlowness\u003c\/i\u003e,  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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow,  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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kundera, Milan \u0026 Asher, Linda","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":49290807181651,"sku":"9780571316496","price":14.27,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":47400289403219,"sku":"XG80571316496","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/kundera-milan-asher-linda-milan-kundera-the-festival-of-insignificance-2016-paperback-58540696109395.jpg?v=1726908974","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/the-festival-of-insignificance","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}