TY - BOOK AU - Kundera, Milan. TI - Immortality: Milan Kundera SN - 9780571144563 U1 - FIC KUN PY - 1992/// CY - London : PB - Faber and Faber, KW - Self-perception KW - Fiction KW - Czech fiction N2 - Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agnes becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that character springs a novel, a gesture of the imagination that both embodies and articulates Milan Kundera's supreme mastery of the novel and its purpose; to explore thoroughly the great, themes of existence ER -