Milan Kundera\'s sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that cre-ates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera.
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 existe.
Like Flaubert\'s Emma or Tolstoy\'s Anna, Kundera\'s Agnes becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing.
Milan Kundera\'s sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that cre-ates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera