the festival of insignificance

The Festival of Insignificance

From the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being,

an unexpected and enchanting novel—the culmination of his life’s work.

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. Readers who know Milan 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