num_pages: 358
description: Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agnès becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that character springs a novel, a gesture of the imagination that both embodies and articulates Milan Kundera's supreme mastery of the novel and its purpose: to explore thoroughly the great themes of existence.
language: English
title: Immortality
titlecomplete: Immortality
characters: Laura Spencer, Agnes, Bernard Bertrand, Bertrand Bertrand, Bettina, Goethe, Rainer Maria Rilke, Christine, Beatrice (diverse works)
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Czech Literature, Philosophy, France, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 37305
places: Paris, Rome
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Cena Jaroslava Seiferta, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Kniha roku
publisher: Harper Perennial