Title: L'Identité
First published: November 1, 2005
Description: Sometimes — perhaps only for an instant — we fail to recognize a companion; for a moment their identity ceases to exist, and thus we come to doubt our own. The effect is at its most acute in a couple, where our existence is given meaning by our perception of a lover, and theirs of us.

With his astonishing skill at building on and out from the significant moment, Kundera has placed such a situation and the resulting wave of panic at the core of his new novel. In a narrative as intense as it is brief, a moment of confusion sets in motion a complex chain of events which forces the reader to
cross and recross the divide between fantasy and reality.
Subjects: Fiction, Man-woman relationships, Identity (Psychology), Man-woman relationships in fiction, Modern fiction, Large type books, Fiction, psychological, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Literature
LC classification: PQ2671.U47 I34 1997