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The Festival of Insignificance audiobook

  • By: Milan Kundera
  • Narrator: Richmond Hoxie
  • Category: Fiction, General
  • Length: 2 hours 33 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: June 23, 2015
  • Language: English
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The Festival of Insignificance Audiobook Summary

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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The Festival of Insignificance Audiobook Narrator

Richmond Hoxie is the narrator of The Festival of Insignificance audiobook that was written by Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera is the author of the novels The Joke, Farewell Waltz, Life Is Elsewhere, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and the short-story collection Laughable Loves–all originally written in Czech. His most recent novels Slowness, Identity, and Ignorance, as well as his nonfiction works The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain, and Encounter, were originally written in French.

About the Author(s) of The Festival of Insignificance

Milan Kundera is the author of The Festival of Insignificance

The Festival of Insignificance Full Details

Narrator Richmond Hoxie
Length 2 hours 33 minutes
Author Milan Kundera
Category
Publisher HarperAudio
Release date June 23, 2015
ISBN 9780062406361

Subjects

The publisher of the The Festival of Insignificance is HarperAudio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, General

Additional info

The publisher of the The Festival of Insignificance is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780062406361.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

Goodreads Reviews

Philippe

April 04, 2014

KUNDERA IS BACKAfter two depressing novels, here is finally the return of the master of irony. The title announces the colour "The insignifiance fest". El Milan, as good surgeon of the customs analyzes funnily the relations between man and woman.Kundera recover his eloquence, it is a great news.Only one problem, it's too short 141 pages, we want more.

Quân Khuê

July 11, 2015

It's the same old Kundera that we know and love: witty as ever, intellectual, or perhaps too intellectual sometimes. Though he no longer surprises us, the book is still a significant novel about the insignificance. I love many parts of it, e.g. the meditation about the navel, the part about Stalin's joke which no one understood. Actually the part about Stalin's joke is key to understand the novel in my opinion. Just around 100 pages in English, this is a quick read, but certainly not an easy read. It's rewarding though.

Regina

July 09, 2017

Por fin se me hizo leer a Kundera, la cual será una experiencia que realmente nunca olvidaré. Tengo que admitir que al principio este autor verdaderamente me intimidaba, pero al darme la oportunidad de adentrarme en su narrativa, me di cuenta que me había estado perdiendo de mucho. Me costó agarrarle el hilo y sentido a la historia, e incluso llegué al final sin tener la más remota idea de qué había leído. Sin embargo, fue precisamente eso lo que me atrapó... el no entender la conexión entre las historias narradas. La incertidumbre de conocer el sentido de la historia fue lo que me mantuvo leyendo y vaya que fue un momento frustrante que sinceramente disfruté.Al final, creo que cada uno se da cuenta de lo extraordinario en todo lo insignificante, ¿o no?

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