1st of all let me tell u something people.
if you are on the verge of setting yourself on fire just out of sheer boredom, postpone it a lil bit till you get a great book like the one i'll be talking about here....by the time u finish reading it, you'd feel a complete change of mind.
trust me on that :)
"The unbearable lightness of being"
by Milan Kundera.
He is a Franco-Czech novelist, born in Brno and lived in France for almost 30 years. All his novels are originally in Czech and honestly the 1st time I ever knew he existed was 2 days ago when I bought this novel. To my luck it turned out to be grrrrrrrrrrreat. i've only read 93 pages out of 311 and I'm telling you this writer is a person who really matters.
On the back of the cover (which is an awesome white one), a Sunday times review :" There are novels that are tragic, or entertaining, and this one is both. There are very few that give a fresh perspective on existence, and force the reader to reassess his own life and attitudes"
Now enjoy this very special part I chose for you.
Suddenly he realized that all his life he had done nothing but talk, write, lecture, concoct sentences, search for formulations and amend them, so in the end no words were precise, their meanings were obliterated, their content lost, they turned into trash, chaff, dust, sand; prowling through his brian, tearing at his hand, they were his insomnia, his illness. And what he yearned for at that moment, vaguely but with all his might, was unbounded music, absolute sound, a pleasant and happy all-encompassing, overpowering, window-rattling din to engulf, once and for all, the pain, the futility, the vanity of words.
It is a tough old world, baby. If u r not bolted together u're gonna shake, rattle, & roll before u turn 30!
Thursday, May 25, 2006
A new book!!!
posted by Veeeva at 5/25/2006 06:07:00 PM
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11 Comments:
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lol
paulo is becoming a trend f3ln coz even those who hate reading have heared of him and they can tell u he is a great writer..lol..
Q: (3la amal enak te check 3ala el post da w trod) where did u buy "the joke" from?
asl i bought "the unbearable lightness of being" from virgin's megastore and there was nothing else for the author except "laughable loves" -
i bought it from the newbookstore in maadi
it's called el khan bookstore or something
kundera's usually sold out in diwan so don't try unless you call them first
nerro wrote about the bookstore here
http://nermeena.blogspot.com/2006/05/her-shop-around-corner-kotob-khan.html
sory but my HTML is as good as my russian ( maba3rafsh a3mel hyper link) so plz copy and paste -
thoughts about water:
"the immortality" has been recommended to me before and frankly i can't wait till i get my hands on it :)
and if i found "the tunnel" i'd get it too.
its just disappointing to have to go to far bookstores to get the books u want.
about the 100% Czech thing...well..i just typed what his book said about him.
whether that or a franco-czech writer..he still rocks big time!!!
thx 4 passing by :)
kundera gamed fe3lan
i read most of the unbearable lightness of being but misplaced it before finishing it :(
i'll buy it again as soon as i finish what i'm reading again
i am reading currently "the joke" his first novel, will tell you how it was as soon as i finish
glad some people read someone other than "paulo cohelo" elly tale3lena moda dah