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An edition of La Fête de l'insignifiance (2007)

The Festival of Insignificance

A Novel

First edition

by

  • ★★★ ★ 3.50 ·
  • 4 Ratings
  • 12 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 6 Have read

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 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, which we may 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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HarperCollins, Harper
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English
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115

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Subjects
Philosophy, Friendship, City and town life, Fiction, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, FICTION / General, FICTION / Literary, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Paris (france), fiction, Friendship, fiction, Male friendship, Fiction, general, Amistad, Novela, Hombres, Vida social y costumbres
People
Joseph Stalin (1879-1953)
Places
Paris, Jardin du Luxembourg (Paris, France), France, Paris (France), Francés, París (Francia), Jardin du Luxembourg
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Table of Contents

Part 1. Introducing the Heroes Page 1 Part 2. The Marionette Theater Page 17 Part 3. Alain and Charles Often Think About Their Mothers Page 33 Part 4. They Are All in Search of a Good Mood Page 49 Part 5. A Little Feather Floats Beneath the Ceiling Page 69 Part 6. Angels Falling Page 83 Part 7. The Festival of Insignificance Page 99

Edition Notes

English-language translation

Published in
New York, USA
Other Titles
La fête de l'insignifiance
Copyright Date
2015
Translation Of
La fête de l'insignifiance
Translated From
French

Classifications

Library of Congress
PQ2671.U47 F4813 2015, PQ2671.U47F4813 2015

Contributors

Translator
Linda Asher
Jacket Design
Milan Bozic
Author Photographer
Catherine Helie
Designer
Fritz Metsch

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
115p.
Number of pages
115

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25893326M
Internet Archive
festivalofinsign0000kund
ISBN 13
9780062356895
LCCN
2015002938
OCLC/WorldCat
902986799

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It was the month of June, the morning sun was emerging from the clouds, and Alain was walking down a Paris street.
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