By Milan Kundera
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Milan Kundera's lightest novel, a divertimento, an opera buffa, Slowness is usually the 1st of this author's fictional works to were written in French.
Disconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows the narrator of Slowness via a midsummer's evening during which stories of seduction, separated via greater than 200 years, interweave and oscillate among the chic and the comedian. Underlying this libertine myth is a profound meditation on modern existence: in regards to the mystery bond among slowness and reminiscence, in regards to the connection among our era's wish to overlook and how we've given ourselves over to the demon of velocity. And approximately "dancers" possessed through the eagerness to be obvious, for whom lifestyles is only a perpetual convey emptied of each intimacy and each pleasure.
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Professor at Charles University, which was the first university to be established in the Holy Roman Empire, as you know. But what you do not know is that Jan Hus was also a great reformm; of orthography. He succeeded in making j[ marvelously simple. In your language, to write what you pronounce ~tch, ' you must use three letters, t , c, h. four: t, s, c, h. Whereas, thanks to Jan Hus, all we necn in our language is a single letter, c, with that little mark above it. " :rhe scientist leans again over the secretary's table, and in the margin of the list, he writes a c, very big, with an inverte?
She has found tbe 33 pretext for a contrived little anger that will prolong their walk: she has been frank with him, so why has he said not a word about hi. beloved, about the Comtesse? Quick, quick, this calls for discussion! They must talk I The conversation starts up again, and again they move off from the chateau, along a path that, this time, will lead them unobstructed to the clasp of love. 10 As she converses, Madame de T. maps out the territory, sets up the next phase of events, lets her partner know what he should think and how he should proceed.
Rhe scientist leans again over the secretary's table, and in the margin of the list, he writes a c, very big, with an inverte? ciJ'curnflex: C; then he looks into bel' eyes and articulates in a very clear, sha,rp voice: "Teb! " 55 The secretary looks into his eyes too and repeats: "Tch. " "Yes. " "It's really very useful. " "Jan Hus's reform," says the scientist, acting as if he had not heard the French girl 's gaffe, "is not completely unknown. " "No. " "In Lithuania I" "In Lithuania," the secretary repeats, trying vainly to recall where in the world to place that country.