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Milan Kundera

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eliterate

2025-05-16 3:06am

This book is utter genius in written form and one of the strangest romance novels ever written, really, calling it a romance is incredibly faulty, too. It's a strange philosophical reflection on love, the world, life, and really all things as well as doubling as a critique on communism. Kundera's writing style is magnificent, it's a mixture of a gentle seriousness and then occasional crassness and vulgarity. This is also the only book I've read on this list that's managed to make me actually cry. I'm not one to cry when the dog dies in a book/movie/video game/tv show/what have you but this one really got me man, RIP Karenin he did nothing wrong