书名：The Festival of Insignificance米兰昆德拉：庆祝无意义

作者：Milan Kundera 

出版社名称：Faber & Faber 

出版时间：2016 

语种：英语 

ISBN：9780571316496 

商品尺寸：12.9 x 0.9 x 19.8 cm 

包装：平装

页数：128（以实物为准）

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-that's The Festival of Insignificance. Readers who know Kundera's 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 author's wife, says to her husband: "you've often told me you meant to write a book one day that would have not a single serious word in it... I warn you: watch out. Your enemies are lying in wait."

Now, far from watching out, 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.

米兰·昆德拉（Milan Kundera），小说家，出生于捷克斯洛伐克布尔诺，自1975年起，在法国定居。长篇小说《玩笑》、《生活在别处》、《告别圆舞曲》、《笑忘录》、《不能承受的生命之轻》和《不朽》，以及短篇小说集《好笑的爱》是以母语捷克文写成。而他新近出版的长篇小说《慢》、《身份》和《无知》及随笔集《小说的艺术》和《被背叛的遗嘱》是以法文写成。《雅克和他的主人》系作者戏剧代表作。

Milan Kundera (born 1 April 1929) is a Czech-born writer who went into exile in France in 1975, and became a naturalised French citizen in 1981. He “sees himself as a French writer and insists his work should be studied as French literature and classified as such in book stores”.

Kundera’s best-known work is The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Prior to the Velvet Revolution of 1989 the Communist régime in Czechoslovakia banned his books. He lives virtually incognito and rarely speaks to the media. A perennial contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature, he is believed to have been nominated on several occasions.