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A literary essay on ten Kundera works and three additional books that reflect his views of the novel's nature offers insight into how to read Kundera, likening his writing to a landscape to be explored and considering his contributions to literature. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
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Agnès's Final Afternoon imitates the protagonist of Milan Kundera's novel Immortality on the last afternoon of her life. Like all readers of fiction, Agnès steps out of the world of planned routes, responsibilities, and social self and gives herself up to the discovery of a new landscape, an experience that will transform her. François Ricard's essay enters into the writings of Milan Kundera in much the same way. The landscape he explores includes a chain of ten novels, composed between 1959 and 1999, and two books containing one of the most lucid reflections on the novel.
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