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Nesmrtelnost is a novel in seven parts, written by milan kundera in 1988 in czech. Milan kundera is a french author, novelist, essayist, playwright and short story writer, who was born in czechoslovakia but has been living in exile in france since 1975 and is often regarded as one of the greatest authors of the modern era. Commentators like kleinman and mishler seem to have introduced a. In a metafictional conceit that works, kundera, at his health club in paris, sees an aging woman make a graceful but casual gesture of farewell to her swimming instructor. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized.
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