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“The Unbearable Lightness of Being” by Milan Kundera

28 January 2010 · Reading · Comments { 1 }

I’ve listed Milan Kundera as one of my favourite authors for a while now, but oddly I’d never read his most famous book until now. It was definitely no letdown – the same philosophical style I’ve come to expect, but sustained over a longer time and with characters that I felt closer to than in [...]

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“Identity” by Milan Kundera

4 May 2008 · Reading · Comments { 0 }

Warning: this review gives away the ending. There’s something intensely dissatisfying about stories that end “but it was all a dream and then she woke up.” Logically, I suppose there shouldn’t be. We accept that a story is made up, we accept that nothing is true, that it is all in effect a dream being [...]

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