庆祝无意义（米兰昆德拉） The Festival of Insignificance

基本信息

Format:Paperback 128 pages

Publisher:HarperCollins

Imprint:Harper Perennial

ISBN:9780062356901

Published:14 Jun 2016

Weight:100g

Dimensions:203 x 135 (mm)

Language:English

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

”纤细而厚重. . . “—— 波士顿环球报

”为其非凡的职业生涯画上了很棒的句号。“—— 石板报

来自国际知名的畅销书《不能承受的存在之轻》（The Unbearable Lightness of Being）的作者昆德拉，是一部有趣而迷人的小说。 在揭示严重的问题的同时，又不说一句严肃的话；对当代世界的现实着迷，同时又完全回避现实主义，这就是《庆祝无意义》。了解米兰-昆德拉早期作品的读者都知道，他希望在小说中融入不严肃的元素，这一点也不出乎他的意料。

在《不朽》中，歌德和海明威一起谈笑风生地走过了几个章节。在《缓慢》中，作者的妻子薇拉对丈夫说："你经常对我说，有一天你要写一本书，书中一个严肃的词都不能有。我警告您：当心，您的敌人正在伺机而动。

昆德拉终于完全实现了他的审美梦想，在这部小说中，我们可以很容易地看到他的整个工作的总结。一种奇怪的总结。奇怪的尾声。奇怪的笑声，灵感来自于我们这个时代，这个时代之所以滑稽是因为它已经失去了所有的幽默感。

我们还能说什么呢？没有了。只需阅读。

Slender but weighty. . .

. What is moving about this novel is its embrace of what has always driven Kundera, the delicate state of living between being and nothingness.Boston Globe

From the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, an entertaining and enchanting novel"a fitting capstone on an extraordinary career." (Slate)

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 realismthats 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. Your enemies are lying in wait.

Kundera is finally and fully realizing his old aesthetic dream in this novel that we could easily view as a summation of his whole work.

A strange sort of summation. Strange sort of epilogue. Strange sort of laughter, inspired by our time, which is comical because it has lost all sense of humor.

What more can we say? Nothing. Just read.

作者简介

米兰-昆德拉（Milan Kundera）出生于捷克斯洛伐克布尔诺，当过工人、爵士音乐家和布拉格高级电影研究所教授。1968年8月俄罗斯入侵后，他的作品被禁。1975年，他和妻子定居法国，并于1981年成为法国居民。他著有长篇小说《玩笑》、《生活在别处》、《告别圆舞曲》、《笑与遗忘之书》、《不能承受的存在之轻》和《不朽》，以及短篇小说集《可笑的爱情》--全部为捷克语原著。他的新长篇小说《缓慢》、《身份》和《无知》，以及非虚构作品《小说的艺术》和《被背叛的遗嘱》的原著均为法文。

Milan Kundera, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, was a student when the Czech Communist regime was established in 1948, and later worked as a labourer, jazz musician and professor at the Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studies in Prague. After the Russian invasion in August 1968, his books were proscribed. In 1975, he and his wife settled in France, and in 1981, he became a French citizen. He is the author of the novels The Joke, Life is Elsewhere, Farewell Waltz, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and of the short-story collection Laughable Loves - all originally in Czech. His most recent novels, Slowness, Identity and Ignorance, as well as his non-fiction works The Art of the Novel and Testaments Betrayed, were originally written in French.