{"product_id":"milan-kundera-89-words-followed-by-prague-a-disappearing-poem-2025","title":"Milan Kundera: 89 Words Followed By Prague, A Disappearing Poem [2025] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn invigorating pair of essays exploring exile, language and national identity \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003efrom one of Europe's most celebrated literary stars, the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Unbearable Lightness of Being.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e89 Words,\u003c\/i\u003e published in 1985, is an expanded version of the dictionary of sorts that readers encountered in \u003ci\u003eThe Art of the Novel,\u003c\/i\u003e and comprises a fascinating and rigorous interrogation of what exile, life in another language, and the betrayals of translations entail.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePrague, A Disappearing Poem\u003c\/i\u003e, dating from 1980, meditates on questions of the culture of the 'small nation' that formed and lends specificity to Kundera's work, and - as in A\u003ci\u003e Kidnapped West\u003c\/i\u003e - questions of the Soviet and Western attitudes to Czech culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTogether, these provocative, elegant and wise essays remind familiar readers of Kundera's presence - his inimitable voice - and for new readers, offer an introduction to his oeuvre: an access point into his fictional universe, characterised by devastating irony and subtlety of judgement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kundera, Milan \u0026 Reeck, Matthew","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":52910481932627,"sku":"9780571393237","price":16.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/kundera-milan-reeck-matthew-milan-kundera-89-words-followed-by-prague-a-disappearing-poem-2025-9780571393237-1218827949.jpg?v=1769817489","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/milan-kundera-89-words-followed-by-prague-a-disappearing-poem-2025","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}