Identity / Milan Kundera ; translated from the French by Linda Asher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kundera, Milan.

Contributor:

Asher, Linda.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Identité. English

Language:

English

French

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

168 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : HarperFlamingo, [1998]

Summary:

There are situations in which we fail for a moment to recognize the person we are with, in which the identity of the other is erased while we simultaneously doubt our own. That also happens with couples - indeed, above all with couples, because lovers fear more than anything else "losing sight" of the loved one. With artfulness in expanding and playing variations on the meaningful moment, Milan Kundera has made this situation - and the vague sense of panic it inspires - the very fabric of his new novel. Here brevity goes hand in hand with intensity, and a moment of bewilderment marks the start of a labyrinthine journey during which the reader repeatedly crosses the border between the real and the unreal, between what occurs in the world outside and what the mind creates in its solitude.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0060175648

OCLC:

37688257