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The Festival of Insignificance

Written by: Milan Kundera, Linda Asher
Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie
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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. Listeners 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.
©2015 Milan Kundera (P)2015 Faber & Faber
Contemporary Fiction
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Life indeed is a festival of insignificance

Kundera is my favorite author, I have the collection of all his books, since my JNU days-Yhe Joke, Unbearable Lightness of Being, and all others, except this one &enjoyed it too, but it's no where close to his other creations. Nevertheless, it realises the insignificance of life as we just live it in a mundane and routine way.
And, how an author of his stature, doesn't know what language, the people of Pakistan speak as one of the characters speaks Pakistani!
Good that he wasn't an Indian, else he would be speaking Indian, not Hindi, or Bangla, Tamil Gujarati, Marathi or Malayalam!!!!!

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