Description
Slowness, Milan Kundera’s seventh novel, tells two love stories in parallel. One is set in the eighteenth century, a time of liberation and openness, and is slow and flavorful. The other, set in our time, is fast and ironic.
In glorifying slowness in this novel, the author invites us to be aware of “the secret bond that connects slowness to memory, and speed to forgetting.”
In this world where the speed of everything is constantly increasing, Kundera believes that we have lost the memory that leads us to pleasure and enables us to feel the joy of living in the present.
In this novel, Kundera highlights the concept of contemporary love relationships, which no longer embody intimate feelings between two selves, but rather a kind of artificial display for others.
In this sense, Slowness is a reflection on redrawing the boundaries between the intimate and private spaces on the one hand, and the public on the other, in a world where everything has become governed by speed and haste.
In this work, we once again discover the elements of strangeness, lightness, and humor, which are the constituent elements of Kundera’s style. We also find his views on the world, politics, intellectuals, the media, love, desire, and sexual liberation—these are topics beloved by this great writer.
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