num_pages: 533
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 Agnes 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: French
title: L'immortalité
titlecomplete: L'immortalité
characters: Laura Spencer, Christine, Bernard Bertrand, Beatrice (diverse works), Goethe, Agnes, Bertrand Bertrand, Bettina, Rainer Maria Rilke
genres: Classics, France, Philosophy, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Czech Literature
ratings_count: 37312
places: Rome, Paris
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Cena Jaroslava Seiferta, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Kniha roku
publisher: Gallimard