Immortality

Immortality (Czech: Nesmrtelnost) is a novel in seven parts, written by Milan Kundera in 1988. First pubished 1990 in French. English edition 345 p., translation by Peter Kussi. In Milan Kundera's brilliantly mordant new novel, "Immortality," the author's persona explains: "No novelist is dearer to me than Robert Musil. He died one morning while lifting weights. When I lift them myself, I keep anxiously checking my pulse, and I am afraid of dropping dead, for to die with a weight in my hand like my revered author would make me an epigone so unbelievable, frenetic and fanatical as immediately to assure me of ridiculous immortality."

Plot

This novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman, seemingly to her swimming instructor. This small act creates the life of a character in the mind of a writer named Milan Kundera. The character, named Agnes, becomes an object of obsession and longing, that explores the meaning of existence.

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