Author Kundera pens what may be his final book

09 June 2015 - 12:57
By Duncan White

Only Milan Kundera could title what is likely to be his final book The Festival of Insignificance. At 86 he's lost none of his delight in subverting expectations, and rather than deliver a work of testamentary grandeur, he has decided to sign off with something strange and slight. His first novel after a 13-year hiatus stretches to just over 100 pages, and the only thing it seems to take seriously is living up to its title.

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