Clever-clever
Jan. 4th, 2006 09:46 pm31 Dec 2005
Immortality - Milan Kundera - Faber and Faber, 1992
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I read very little contemporary mainstream fiction, and this book is a fine example of why. Described by a breathless lit-crit on the cover as "an unclassifiable masterpiece", it is the only book I can recall encountering recently that has no blurb explaining what it is about. There is a reason for this. It is not really about anything except itself.
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Immortality - Milan Kundera - Faber and Faber, 1992
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I read very little contemporary mainstream fiction, and this book is a fine example of why. Described by a breathless lit-crit on the cover as "an unclassifiable masterpiece", it is the only book I can recall encountering recently that has no blurb explaining what it is about. There is a reason for this. It is not really about anything except itself.
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