{"product_id":"bxosodin-the-festival-of-insignificance-9780571316465","title":"The Festival Of Insignificance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“Slender but weighty... What is moving about this novel is its embrace of what has always driven Kundera, the delicate state of living between being and nothingness.” —\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Unbearable Lightness of Being,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ean entertaining and enchanting novel — \"a fitting capstone on an extraordinary career.\" (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSlate\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCasting 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Festival of Insignificance\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eImmortality\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Goethe and Hemingway stroll through several chapters together talking and laughing. And in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSlowness\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 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.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKundera 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43514557235406,"sku":"9780571316465","price":34.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/0883\/2974\/files\/9780571316465_a.png?v=1778738055","url":"https:\/\/www.bookxcess.com\/products\/bxosodin-the-festival-of-insignificance-9780571316465","provider":"BookXcess","version":"1.0","type":"link"}