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Author | Milan Kundera |
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Language | French |
Publisher | Harper Perennial |
Publication date | 1996 (1995 in French) |
Publication place | France |
Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
Pages | 192 pp |
ISBN | 0-06-092841-7 (paperback) |
OCLC | 36959797 |
Slowness (French: La Lenteur) is a novel by Czech writer Milan Kundera published in 1995 in France, where the author had been living since the 1970s. It's his first fictional work written in French.[1] In the book, Kundera weaves together a number of plot lines, characters and themes in just over 150 pages. While the book has a narrative, it mainly serves as a way for Kundera to expound his philosophical ideas about modernity, technology, memory and sensuality.