Fiction
Slowness
Milan Kundera's Slowness is a short, essayistic novel about speed, memory, and the eighteenth-century libertine novel, told with the author's characteristic interruptions and ironies. The narrator meditates on a single night at a French château while a contemporary plot unfolds in parallel, and the two timelines argue about whether slowness is a virtue or a luxury. This preprint edition from HarperCollins comes in a slipcase, a format that treats the slender text as an object of some ceremony. Whether the packaging justifies the shelf space is a question for the collector; the prose inside remains the same. For readers who would rather think about sex and time than watch either one race past.
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