This collection contains stories about the sport of love - Don Juanism, ageing, male and female power and seductions undertaken for all kinds of intriguing motives. Milan Kundera is author of Unbearable Lightness of Being and the Book of Laughter and Forgetting.
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This collection contains stories about the sport of love - Don Juanism, ageing, male and female power and seductions undertaken for all kinds of intriguing motives. Milan Kundera is author of Unbearable Lightness of Being and the Book of Laughter and Forgetting.
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Good. corners of cover creased and worn, surface of cover worn and faded, pages faded, remainder mark. Text in English, Czech. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade.
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Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Very Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. xviii, 242, (11) pp. The pages are tanning at the edges; otherwise, the book appears unread. Seven short stories of sexual comedy. Translated from the Czech by Suzanne Rappaport. From the series "Writers from the Other Europe."
It being Kundera, it is worth a read, so I recommend it albeit somewhat guardedly. This series of shorts ranges from nearly sublime to nearly petty. That's the bad news. The good news is that, although the author seems interested in writing about relationships and the varieties of interconnectedness between lovers, what he really writes about is life under communism and people's attempts to eradicate themselves from the oppressive dullness and lack of sensual pleasure under that rule. Perhaps as a political book (and now merely an historical document), it is more profound for discussing this problem indirectly. (As a meditation on love, it is not especially valuable.)
