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Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy and Musil. He is especially penetrating on Hermann Broch, and his exploration of the world of Kafka's novels vividly reveals the comic terror of Kafka's bureaucratized universe. Kundera's discussion of his own work includes his views on the role of historical events in fiction, the meaning of action and the creation of character in the postpsychological novel.

This book is a very special book, a book that can change your life if you let it. It’s about tough times and transformation, filled with lots of inspiring stories by elite coaches who are fully open, transparent and vulnerable as they tell you about the tough times they have faced, the troubles they have navigated. The stories are deep and personal, and they will touch your heart. You will find stories about something most people don’t want to talk about. It’s about those dark moments of the soul that we all encounter; the rough patches in life when nothing seems to be going right. ...

Ace and Vincent return to earth after training under Grom. They bring with them training techniques and new allies. Earth begins to undergo a transformation that changes everything. Ace and Vincent have learned that they aren't alone in the universe. In its current state, humanity is weak. They might be enslaved, or worse. How will humanity survive after entering the stage of the universe?

In this thought-provoking, endlessly enlightening, and entertaining essay on the art of the novel, renowned author Milan Kundera suggests that "the curtain" represents a ready-made perception of the world that each of us has - a pre-interpreted world. The job of the novelist, he argues, is to rip through the curtain and reveal what it hides. Here an incomparable literary artist cleverly sketches out his personal view of the history and value of the novel in Western civilization.

St. Ambrose (CE 340-397), bishop of Milan, felt strongly that virginity was one of the principle virtues. He was very successful in persuading maidens to adopt chaste religious vocations, so much so that many a mother refused to permit her daughter to listen to him. At one point, the saint was compelled to refute the accusation that he was depopulating the state. He did this by appealing to the young men of his age that they should not have any difficulty in finding wives.

In this dark farce of a novel, set in an old-fashioned Central European spa town, eight characters are swept up in an accelerating dance: a pretty nurse and her repairman boyfriend; an oddball gynecologist; a rich American (at once saint and Don Juan); a popular trumpeter and his beautiful, obsessively jealous wife; an disillusioned former political prisoner about to leave his country and his young woman ward. Farewell Waltz poses the most serious questions with a blasphemous lightness that makes us see that the modern world has deprived us even of the right to tragedy.

An innocent pastor's daughter hid safely in her own self-made bubble. Until, as an adult, the bubble popped. The dusty, long-sealed book was pried open. Based on a true story, For The Silenced Ones take you on an inner healing journey with Callie McCormick, a victim of satanic ritual abuse under the guide of the church. From a betrayed, shatter soul to forgiveness, redemption, and wholeness, Callie braves the uphill battle towards freedom

It's tempting to think that we live in an unprecedentedly fertile age for conspiracy theories, with seemingly each churn of the news cycle bringing fresh manifestations of large-scale paranoia. But the sad fact is that these narratives of suspicion - and the delusional psychologies that fuel them - have been a constant presence in American life for nearly as long as there's been an America. In this sweeping book, Thomas Milan Konda traces the country's obsession with conspiratorial thought from the early days of the republic to our own anxious moment.

Tutto comincia alle sei di mattina, in radio, dove due giornalisti assonnati si danno il turno. Lui è appena arrivato e cerca di svegliarsi con un caffè, lei sta correndo a casa dopo aver lavorato tutta la notte. E succede che nella fretta i due si scambiano per errore i cellulari. Si rivedono qualche ora più tardi, e da un dialogo surreale nasce un invito al cinema, poi una mostra, un aperitivo, una gita in montagna.

All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now, a quarter century after The Joke was first published and several years after the collapse of the Soviet-imposed Czechoslovak regime, it becomes easier to put such implications into perspective in favour of valuing the book (and all Kundera's work) as what it truly is: great, stirring literature that sheds new light on the eternal themes of human existence.

Milan Kundera's lightest novel, a divertimento, an opera buffa, Slowness is also the first of this author's fictional works to have been written in French. Disconcerted and enchanted, the listener follows the narrator of Slowness through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated by more than 200 years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the comic.

The second installment in the Nobles series introduces the adventures of many striking new characters, who do battle to the death - and beyond - in the Forgotten Realms setting.

Crash has never let the circumstances of his birth, or his lack of a last name, bother him. His associations may be unsavory, but money, friends, and infamy open far more interesting doors than respect ever could. His sole regret? Once lovely, sweet Daisy Whitlaw learned the truth about how he made his fortune, she cut him off. Daisy's father is dead, her mother is in ill health, and her available funds have dwindled to a memory. When the local parish announces a charity bequest to help young people start a trade, it's her last chance.

The 7 Minute Conversation is the written adaptation of my most popular conference seminar presentation. I have performed it live over 100 times, and it never gets old. The information is timeless and super easy to use. So, I thought I could give it more respect if I just expanded on Chapter 3 and wrote this book as a supplement.

Lavinia Spencer is too poor to be anything but practical. But when her younger brother lands himself in trouble, she has no choice but to do the unthinkable. She accepts the help of the dishonorable man that she's always wanted, even knowing that it might mean her ruination.

Si tratta sempre di amore, in queste storie. Ma un amore a cui si accompagna ogni volta la mistificazione, con effetto deflagrante. Il mondo va felicemente in pezzi sotto i nostri occhi, frantumato dalla duplice spinta dell’eros e della mistificazione. E l’essenza amorosa, nella sua leggerezza e nel suo pathos, si sprigiona finalmente, come liberata da una costrizione.

Ace and Vincent spent day and night in the challenges, growing stronger at a breakneck speed. Through their crazy training and lucky encounters, they have grown so strong that they stand above all others. The world watches their every move, and their actions shake the world. Through Ace's desire to help others grow stronger so that they may protect themselves, Northrock city was born.

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Casting light on the most serious of problems and at the same time saying not one serious sentence; being fascinated by the reality of the contemporary world and at the same time completely avoiding realism - that's The Festival of Insignificance. Listeners who know Kundera's earlier books know that the wish to incorporate an element of the "unserious" in a novel is not at all unexpected of him.

Jacques and His Master is a deliciously witty and entertaining "variation" on Diderot's novel Jacques le Fatalist, written for Milan Kundera's "private pleasure" in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia.

When the "heavy Russian irrationality" fell on Czechoslovakia, Milan Kundera explains, he felt drawn to the spirit of the eighteenth century -"And it seemed to me that nowhere was it to be found more densely concentrated than in that banquet of intelligence, humor, and fantasy, Jacques le Fataliste."

The upshot was this "Homage to Diderot," which has now been performed throughout the United States and Europe. Here, Jacques and His Master, newly translated by Simon Callow, is a text that will delight Kundera's admirers throughout the English-speaking world.