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Identity
A Literary Fiction Novel by Milan Kundera
Subgenres:
- Psychological Fiction,
- Relationship Fiction,
- Existential Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Existential suspense woven into intimate relationships
- Psychological fiction blurring fantasy and reality in couples
- Philosophical novels built from small but seismic moments
Kundera, master of the twosome, finds erotic and existential threads everywhere in daily behavior. Like his previous books, Identity is a cluster of jeweled observations. But Identity has a special charm: suspense. [It] gets us turning the pages in excitement and alarm, and Kundera's wit keeps us turning them to the very end.
In a narrative as intense as it is brief, a moment of confusion sets in motion a complex chain of events which forces the reader to cross and recross the divide between fantasy and reality. Sometimes—perhaps only for an instant—we fail to recognize a companion; for a moment their identity ceases to exist, and thus we come to doubt our own. The effect is at its most acute in a couple, where our existence is given meaning by our perception of a lover, and theirs of us.
With his astonishing skill at building on and out from the significant moment, Milan Kundera has placed such a situation and the resulting wave of panic at the core of this novel.
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