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Original Title:	La festa dell’insignificanza
ISBN:	0062356895 (ISBN13: 9780062356895)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Europese Literatuurprijs Nominee (2015)

The Festival of Insignificance

Milan Kundera

Hardcover | Pages: 115 pages

Rating: 3.32 | 12058 Users | 1551 Reviews

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Title	:	The Festival of Insignificance
Author	:	Milan Kundera
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 115 pages
Published	:	June 23rd 2015 by Harper (first published October 30th 2013)
Categories	:	Fiction. Novels. Philosophy. Literature. European Literature. Czech Literature

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From the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, an unexpected and enchanting novel—the culmination of his life's work.

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 Milan 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.

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Absurd festival of insignificant events that represent life and its subjectivity. A man who lies to his friend that he has cancer, another pretends he is Pakistani and invents a dummy language, apologizers, and a floating feather in the room...Very well written absurd mood, quite a messy one.However, as this is my third book of Kundera, I don't see his brilliance. He often attempts to write about life philosophy and absurdity, which is the kind of books I like; But although some of his thoughts

Personally, I thought this was superfluous and weird. But maybe Im just not intellectual enough...(At least I crammed this in before bedtime and will not have to lug it to England tomorrow aka more room in my bag for a nice new book to bring back.)

The worldview displayed here is by far too flat.Yet, the commitment of the author is real, the issues raised, fascinating.The keen pleasure to read Kundera is not to be dismissed, but I do not agree with him. I do not share this reassuring, consoling vision of life."By now, I see insignificance in an different light altogether, a brighter light, more revealing. Insignificance, my friend, is the gist of existence. It is always and everywhere with us. It is present, even where nobody wants to see

It is always a pleasure to read kundera and wander through his fantastic mind and soul...Loved this book..

A story filled with varying degrees of humor not lacking in seriousness. Im a huge Kundera fan finding enjoyment in all his works. I found this novella delightful.The book centers around our existence, with time we begin to be less significant. We will fade from memories or be remembered in embellished ways by those never really knowing our intricacies. Insignificance, my friend, is the essence of existence, Kundera points out the fact insignificant things in life are the most beautiful and

I never know how to rate Kundera's books because although the writing is good, the story, if one can call it that is missing. It appears that once Kundera started writing in French, he started trying too hard. The blurb on the backs tells us the book is funny: "Drôle de rire inspiré par notre époque qui est comique parce qu'elle a perdu tout sens de l'humour." Oui c'est vrai. Moi aussi, j'ai perdu tout sens de l'humour. At least I found nothing to laugh at here. Apparently, the humour we are

Absurd festival of insignificant events that represent life and its subjectivity. A man who lies to his friend that he has cancer, another pretends he is Pakistani and invents a dummy language, apologizers, and a floating feather in the room...Very well written absurd mood, quite a messy one.However, as this is my third book of Kundera, I don't see his brilliance. He often attempts to write about life philosophy and absurdity, which is the kind of books I like; But although some of his thoughts