Kundera whirls through comedy and tragedy towards his central question: how does a person, any person, live today? In constructing his answer, he writes of politics, sex, literature, modern man's alienation - and of their antidotes: laughter and forgetting
##six ostriches
评分##It was a coincidence that I picked up this book, of which the Chinese version I read in high school, right after finishing a D.H. Lawrence book. Now I am tired with masculinity, and with no ability to think straight about these men's portrayal of women. Sex, desire, honesty to oneself, physical passion are impossible to be picked apart.
评分##end of part 2
评分##end of part 2
评分##Never liked Kundera, but this book changed my impression, just a little bit.
评分##The novel is the fruit of a human illusion. The illusion of the power to understand others.
评分##上个月看完没标
评分##我觉得Kundera的伟大之处在于他对于作家身份的exploration。
评分##"Litost is a state of torment created by the sudden sight of one's own misery."