Paperback edition of this acclaimed hardback. The two tales told in }Slowness{, both tales of dreams and seduction, take place over the course of one quite extraordinary midsummer's night, but they occur over two hundred years apart. His book is cunningly constructed and so elegantly written that you hardly notice the extent of its intellectual map until the final page. }Independent{ Readers are taken 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 ridiculous. They provide merely a narrative framework for Kundera's novel, within which is condensed existential analysis.
