This may have done numbers back when it first came out, but achieved next to nothing when reading recently.Thoughts, anons? Literary device meta masterpiece or pretentious drivel?
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>>25346493>masterpieceyes
>>25346546why
>I can't stop cheating on my wife! I can't stop! No matter how hard I try, I just can't do it! I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't!>Oh wait, it's just that easy, I was able to stop whenever I wanted lol.Entertaining book but infuriating male lead.Don't watch the movie. His cheating is even worse when the most beautiful actress of all time plays his wife.
The title is the best thing about this book. I have to admit it has that 'iconic' quality.
read a bit and never finished. I recall the prose was a let-down and it put me to sleep repeatedly
>>25346701That's the sense I get, having not read it. I think I'm going to skip it
>>25346493I liked it. I'm a degenerate sex addict so I related to the retard husband who couldn't stop cheating.
can anyone give a reason as to why it's actually good lol
>>253468451, prose.
>>25346856>t. autÃst
>>25346612He explains why he is a womaniser. Whenever he meets a women he wants to know what she is like when she orgasms to his touch, and each women is slightly different.
>>25346845The deconstruction of Hegelianism/Marxism.
>>25346891how is that interesting tho
>>25346888He's just like me...
>>25346918Because it strongly challenges a successful and interesting philosophical worldview, which the reader can integrate into their own approach to life.
>>25346888>She explains why she is a slut. Whenever she meets a man she wants to know what he is like when he orgasms to her touch, and each man is slightly different
>>25347072That's not in the book!
>>25347094It's in a better book, my diary desu.
It's incredibly easy to read too. It's broken into dozens of mini-chapters five to seven pages long. It never overstays or becomes tedious. Find it hard to believe there are people who find it difficult to read or gave up.
>>25347102it's boring as fuck
>>25346845why should we? if you can't figure out why it's good then it's a case of pearls before swine
>>25347106If you're a philistine, sure.
>>25347043This doesn't seem like a valid reason for the book itself to be good. Orwell did something similar without having to play mental gymnastics with literary devices, and those books became masterpieces.This one reads more like the author is mentally unstable but has an outlet for their nonsense.
>>25346493I prefer the sequelThe Incomparable Tightness of Being so Fucking Radical
>>25347414Orwell wrote very simple didactic books for children. Kundera wrote literature.
>>25347459Something something complexity is for idiots etc etc
>>25347459LmaoIt's always the pretentious retards who like this shit.
>>25347648If you're a philistine then literature is not for you. What more needs to be said? You've placed a ceiling over yourself and found a home down in the mud.
>>25346493It doesn't hit remotely as hard if you aren't central European, and can't see those connections between politics and art. People outside of that area will either be insufficiently cultured for art, or insufficiently experienced with totalitarian politics.It's one of my favourite books, I mentally come back to it a lot. Especially the argument about human treatment of animals.
It's genius, bought it, read it in Spanish twice, ended up loaning 4 more Kundera novels in Spanish, read them all at least once before returning them. Wrecks all leftist narrative from beginning to end without ceasing to be beautiful art but if u are leftist it is also for u. The author not winning the Nobel is proof the Nobel is a sham.
>>25347733>I repeat insults I read from old people110 IQ cargo cult strategy
>>25348034the political/cultural stuff is interesting but peripheral
>>25348284Yes, as a literate person I have read Matthew Arnold. Literature is not for you.
>>25346493The Alchemist for people who think they're too smart for The Alchemist
>>25346493>pretentioussounds like it went over your head
>>25349011I read alphonsus ibarruri, sit down white boi
Sebald, but without discernible talent.
