Immortality

A climax where Milan Kundera's understanding of the novel finds its full expression: Immortality. According to him, the novel is a tool to investigate existence; The writer asks questions to be solved rather than presenting some facts. Kundera, the writer-narrator-hero of Immortality, draws a path consisting of different novelesque themes such as immortality, face, love and coincidence in the seven chapters of this work. The novel brings together events and heroes that seem extremely separate from each other, but are closely connected to each other. Kundera creates scenes that are all a universe; in this great theater play, coincidences, intersections, parallels and contrasts depict Hemingway and Goethe, Goethe's lover Bettina von Arnim and Agnes searching for her existence in loneliness, Kundera and Professor Avenarius. It brings together on the same stage, around the same problem. The heroes of Immortality are born from a movement, a becoming, a concept that transcends themselves; The author, with his presence in the book, acts as a mirror in which the situations of the heroes are reflected. Kundera, in whose novels the great influence of musical techniques is seen, preserves his original polyphony, which reveals his rejection of univocity. Thus, a masterpiece emerges: Immortality, an extraordinary adventure of thinking about literature, its materials and possibilities.
(Excerpt from the Promotional Article)



Number of Pages: 435

Printing Year : 2015


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Can Publishing

Number of Pages: 435

First Printing Year: 2002

Language: Turkish