Slowness (Record no. 9064)
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| fixed length control field | 01115nam a2200169 4500 |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 96006253 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780060928414 |
| 024 ## - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER | |
| Standard number or code | 36959797 |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | PQ2671.U47 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 891.8635 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Milan Kundera |
| 245 1# - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Slowness |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Harper Perennial |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 176 pages |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Milan Kundera's lightest novel, a divertimento, an opera buffa, Slowness is also the first of this author's fictional works to have been written in French.Disconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows the narrator of Slowness through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated by more than two hundred years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the comic. Underlying this libertine fantasy is a profound meditation on contemporary life: about the secret bond between slowness and memory, about the connection between our era's desire to forget and the way we have given ourselves over to the demon of speed. And about "dancers" possessed by the passion to be seen, for whom life is merely a perpetual show emptied of every intimacy and every joy. |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Copy number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Lake Chapala Society | Lake Chapala Society | 07/17/2024 | TP KUND | 58103 | 07/17/2024 | 1 | 07/17/2024 | Book |