Identity (Magill Book Reviews)

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Best known for his 1984 novel THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING, which won him international acclaim and has since been translated (from his native Czech) into fifteen languages, Milan Kundera is often cited for the non-traditional narrative forms he employs and his fiction’s philosophical investigations into the human character’s public and private histories. In IDENTITY (the second novel, after 1996’s SLOWNESS, to be written in his adopted language of French) Kundera again concerns himself with the puzzle of the self and the imminent threat of its loss, a dilemma which many of...

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