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3.89 AVERAGE
3.89 AVERAGE
Milan Kundera's first novel is a satirical account of the Communist regime and its totalitarianism, eventually leading to his blacklisting and his works being banned in Czechoslovakia. The central theme of the plot being jokes, and how each of the central characters find their lives transformed by life's elaborate prank. There are four central characters, each of whose first-person perspectives unfold systematically as the plot unfolds. Some of the underlying themes are blacklisting, cultural conservatism, religion and life in imprisonment.
Moderate: Misogyny
Imagine my amazement when I read this book for the first time without knowing anything about it beforehand and learn that one of the greatest authors of all time and I once had the same notion.
Surreal!
I thoroughly enjoyed every chapter and element of this book.
While I was reading it, I kept wondering how The Unbearable Lightness of Being came to be his most well-known piece. This is it for me ! The joke is his magnum opus.
The chance that Milan Kundera will pass away before receiving the Nobel Prize he unquestionably deserves is growing increasingly likely as he ages, and I find this to be incredibly sad.
New favourite and very highly recommended .
استمتعتُ أكثر في الفصول الأولى والوسطى.
The book mostly talks about communism, political identity and revenge, usually not my favourite topics but I think Kundera has a gift to make every topic interesting!
I think you can tell it's his first book cause it's the most "ordinary" and he doesn't experiment as much with different settings, unusual arcs of suspense and the like.
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