Name: Slowness
ISBN: 9780063290754

Slowness

Milan Kundera's lightest novel, a divertimento, an opera buffa, Slownessis also the first of this author's fictional works to have been written in French. Disconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows the narrator of Slownessthrough a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated by more than two hundred years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the comic. Underlying this libertine fantasy is a profound meditation on contemporary life: about the secret bond between slowness and memory, about the connection between our era's desire to forget and the way we have given ourselves over to the demon of speed. And about "dancers" possessed by the passion to be seen, for whom life is merely a perpetual show emptied of every intimacy and every joy.

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eindiranJul 2023

My washing machine broke the other day and I had to stop by a laundromat. Someone had left a copy of "Slowness" on the table there, so I spent the time doing my laundry reading it. Hadn't even heard of it before, but it is definitely my favorite Kundera novel. A short but incredible read. Sad to see he is no longer with us.

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profstasiakDec 2022

I recommend "Slowness" by Milan Kundera, he has some interesting thoughts about elite/popularity/celebrities. To be honest one can be pretty "elite" without gaining this amount of popularity. Elon is trying to become a celebrity with his actions so he shouldn't complain that people treat him like a celebrity.

It's hard for me to give an example of anonymous US billionaires, but the richest guy in Poland is pretty much anonymous. Last time I checked there were no photos of him, no biography, and even people in his big company didn't know how he looks sometimes.

Edit: His name is Tomasz Biernacki, here is a bloomberg article altough I can't pass the paywall https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-18/reclusive...

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