From the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, an unexpected and enchanting novel—the culmination of his lifes work.Casting light on the most serious of problems and at the same time saying not one serious sentence being fascinated by the reality of the contemporary world and at the same time completely avoiding realism—thats The Festival of Insignificance. Readers who know Milan Kunderas earlier books know that the wish to incorporate an element of the unserious in a novel is not at all unexpected of him. In Immortality, Goethe and Hemingway stroll through several chapters together talking and laughing. And in Slowness, Vera, the authors wife, says to her husband youve often told me you meant to write a book one day that would have not a single serious word in itI warn you watch out.
