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Summary: ¿Dónde nos llevas Kundera?
Review: Probablemente este sea el libro que más reflexiones me ha provocado. Sí, provocar, un buen verbo para este libro. Kundera nos provoca desde su fluido discurso, tratando las más sublimes cuestiones con la exquisita claridad y simplicidad a la que tan solo un genio puede aspirar. Él mismo nos da imagen de lo que su libro es para un lector apasionado, una suculenta comida que deseamos nunca acabe, se suceden platos y platos y los degustamos sin prisa, extasiados, y al llegar al final "lástima, no quería que terminase". Una grandísima obra de la literatura universal, con una concepción y un estilo inmejorables.
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Summary: Pure entertainment of the finest quality
Review: I was going to title my review: "Inmortality is to literaure as a Dali is to painting". I didnt beacuse it sound exagerated and pretentious, but i wanted to say it anyway. And its true, what i mean with that is that the book doesn't respect normal novel structures, he just combines fiction characters with real ones, creates conversations between Goethe and Heminway (¿?), with excellent results by the way. Like a Dali, crazy, but beautiful just because of that.Some people dont's like this book, they say that it's pretentious. If you start reading this book expecting a phylosophical lecture, surely you will be dissapointed. Kundera just takes normal everyday thoughts (that can go through the minds of everyone of us, nothing so special), does a little analysis of them and puts it into paper using his talent of expressing thoughts into written words. The result: see the title of this review. This makes me think of another possible analogy: Inmortality to literature as Seinfeld to TV sitcoms. Clever, entertaining and of great quality. However, i want to enfatize that this book is not superficial at all, it is profund and very interesting. For me "Inmortality" is better than "unbearable lightness of being" (i loved both). Kundera himself wrote somewhere in this book that he made a mistake with the titles, that this one should have been name "the unbearable...." (really) Reading this book is like having a great conversation. Kundera's best.
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Summary: Interesting, but left me wanting more...
Review: This book was an interesting read. However, it took a while to get into. Not only that but I loved "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and this book was just nothing in comparison to it. So pick it up if you want something interesting, but don't expect the woman with the bowler hat.
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Summary: Eternally Fascinating
Review: Milan Kundera took a simple gesture from a woman to her swimming instructor and turned it into a breathtakingly beautiful novel full of thought provoking ideas and fascinating situations. Plumming the question of existance, Kundera fills Immortality with his gift of insight and a cleverness only found among his novels. This book was a pleasure to read from beginning to end.
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Summary: This book is......Immortal!
Review: If you like straightforward books with straightforward plots, straightforward characters and straightforward beginnings, storylines and conclusions, this book may not for you. The novel takes place in the present, in the past, in the afterlife & in the surreal world of Kundera's imagination. The work has several different seemingly separate stories that Kundera somehow weaves into a coherent whole. We meet people that we are led to believe actually exist who talk with the author during "intermissions" of the novel. Later, we learn that Kundera was discussing topics with the characters in his novel. The book has sundry marvelous sections which brood over just about every intellectual topic associated with immortality. We see an eloborate (although fictionalized) glimpse of Goethe's historical meeting with Napoleon. We get an impression of how many great artists look upon their craft as mementos of their immortality. We even get an answer to the $60,000 question: WHAT would happen if Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Earnest Hemingway met up in the afterlife? (Wow! What a thought!) As I mentioned earlier, this book does not have the standard structure of most other novels. That said, however, it was quite enjoyable to read. It did not go off the deep end of Faulkneresque stream-of-consciousness psycho-babble. An excellent and entertaining postmodern effort.
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Summary: Pretentious
Review: After hearing the rave reviews about this book, perhaps I set my expectations too high. I found nothing original nor outstanding in this book. The author is opinionated, condescending and self indulgent, churning tired, pretentious and contrived conclusions about the human character. Immortality is, at best, a tiring read, with little substance and even less originality of thought.
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Summary: too clever by half
Review: If you like post-modernist deconstructionism then this is the novel for you! After reading each page you will be able to sigh and say This author is so clever! And I the reader must be pretty clever too to be enjoying such a clever author. So we all win! Myself, I thought that Calvino's If on a stormy night was better, as these post-modern deconstructionist novels go - it really turned everything upside down and inside out. I found this novel pretentious contrived and ultimately boring. The author spends a lot of the time discussing what the characters are thinking and a lot of the time philosophizing. Too much head stuff altogether. It is clear that many readers are enraptured by this novel, but definitely not all of us. An acquired taste!
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Summary: For the Ages
Review: Kundera's inspiration, as he states in the opening pages was a gesture made by a sixty-year-old woman (He calls her Agnes) at his health club. His imagination carried him away to the creation of her family: husband Paul and sister Laura. Soon we float between them and their experiences, as they make their way through life; we in turn begin to slowly respond to the great themes of existence that Kundera's characters are created to explore. One of the most interesting aspects of the novel is that we get to journey with Kundera as he writes about Agnes. The author's voice is constantly in the background. He seems to consult us as he makes his way through the writing process and to the inevitable conclusions drawn from tragically lived lives.
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Summary: something you have to read every year
Review: Once again, kundera has given of himself to the reader a lifetime of thoughts and treasure that has been in all of us, all the time. The book is a mystery and a wonder, a thought-provoking story that possibly have been read one time or another but only as kundera could have written.
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Summary: If you want to be mentally challenged, read this book.
Review: Let me begin by saying that I am not a Milan Kundera specialist. I began my Kundera career reading The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Although I do not consider his works to be gospel, I do think that some enlightenment can be had from them. He disects human life in to its simplest form and puts those pieces on a plate for the reader to ingest. Please take of it as you will (because I do not believe you will leave empty handed)and make the conclusions that are pertinent to you, because I believe that his writings are made, deliberate on not deliberate, to be as such.
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