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The Complete Stories
- De: Clarice Lispector, Katrina Dodson, Benjamin Moser
- Narrado por: full cast
- Duración: 22 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 23
Here, gathered in one volume, are the stories that made Clarice a Brazilian legend. Originally a cloth edition of 86 stories, now we have 89 in all, covering her whole amazing career, from her teenage years to her deathbed. In these pages, we meet teenagers becoming aware of their sexual and artistic powers, humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies, old people who don't know what to do with themselves - and in their stories, Clarice takes us through their lives - and hers - and ours.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful Collection
- De XX en 04-25-20
De: Clarice Lispector, y otros
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Death in Venice
- De: Thomas Mann
- Narrado por: Peter Batchelor
- Duración: 3 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 208
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 180
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 182
A stunningly beautiful youth and the city of Venice set the stage for Thomas Mann’s introspective examination of erotic love and philosophical wisdom.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A problem with the narration
- De Erez en 03-19-12
De: Thomas Mann
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The First Man
- De: Albert Camus
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
- Duración: 8 h y 9 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
In The First Man, Albert Camus tells the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like his own. Camus summons up the sights, sounds, and textures of a childhood circumscribed by poverty and a father's death yet redeemed by the austere beauty of Algeria and the boy's attachment to his nearly deaf-mute mother. The result is a moving journey through the lost landscape of youth that also discloses the wellsprings of Camus's aesthetic powers and moral vision.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Narration by Jefferson Mays
- De Sean Patrick Stevens en 07-31-21
De: Albert Camus
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The Kill (La Curee)
- De: Émile Zola
- Narrado por: Cate Barratt
- Duración: 11 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 16
Émile Zola's The Kill is one part of the French author's 20-volume series about the fictitious Rougon-Macquart family during the Second French Empire, and it is rich with symbolism. Paris is awakening to unprecedented expansion, the future intoxicating, and in keeping with its penchant for excess, the aristocracy is caught up in the mad dash to devour as much of it as it can.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Whoever?!
- De Matthew Garcia en 07-07-21
De: Émile Zola
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The Years
- De: Annie Ernaux
- Narrado por: Anna Bentinck
- Duración: 8 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 194
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 172
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 173
The Years is a personal narrative of the period of 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present - even projections into the future - photos, books, songs, radio, television, and decades of advertising and headlines, contrasted with intimate conflicts and written notes from six decades of diaries. Local dialect, words of the time, slogans, brands, and names for ever-proliferating objects are given a voice here. The voice we recognize as the author's continually dissolves and re-emerges.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Mixed Feelings
- De Elin VanD en 05-10-20
De: Annie Ernaux
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Nausea (New Directions Paperbook)
- De: Jean-Paul Sartre
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 175
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 157
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 156
Sartre's greatest novel and existentialism's key text, now introduced by James Wood, and read by the inimitable Edoardo Ballerini. Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form, he ruthlessly catalogs his every feeling and sensation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Glad to have existed to enjoy reading this book!
- De mohammed en 08-11-21
De: Jean-Paul Sartre
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The Odd Woman and the City
- A Memoir
- De: Vivian Gornick
- Narrado por: Vivian Gornick
- Duración: 4 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 22
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 20
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 20
A memoir of self-discovery and the dilemma of connection in our time, The Odd Woman and the City explores the rhythms, chance encounters, and ever-changing friendships of urban life that forge the sensibility of a fiercely independent woman who has lived out her conflicts, not her fantasies, in a city (New York) that has done the same.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Yet another Gornick masterpiece
- De Lo en 01-14-23
De: Vivian Gornick
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Steppenwolf
- De: Hermann Hesse
- Narrado por: Peter Weller
- Duración: 7 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,545
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,243
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,242
Harry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a reclusive intellectual for whom life holds no joy. He struggles to reconcile the wild primeval wolf and the rational man within himself without surrendering to the bourgeois values he despises. His life changes dramatically when he meets a woman who is his opposite, the carefree and elusive Hermine.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Save this Hesse novel for your midlife crisis.
- De Darwin8u en 03-02-14
De: Hermann Hesse
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Siddhartha
- De: Hermann Hesse
- Narrado por: Harish Bhimani
- Duración: 4 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 197
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 153
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 149
Hermann Hesse’s classic novel Siddhartha, takes place in ancient India around the time of the Buddha (6th century BC). Siddhartha and his companion Govinda set out in search of enlightenment. Siddhartha goes through a series of changes and realizations as he attempts to achieve this goal. Siddhartha joins the ascetics, visits Gotama, embraces his earthly desires, and finally communes with nature, all in an attempt to attain Nirvana.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Sounds rushed
- De Viviane en 10-17-11
De: Hermann Hesse
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Jenny
- De: Sigrid Undset
- Narrado por: K. G. Cross
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 28
Jenny is the story of Jenny Winge, a talented Norwegian painter who lives a free and independent life in Rome. Betraying her own ideals, she has an affair, resulting in a child out of wedlock, and decides to raise the child on her own. Undset gives a gripping portrayal of a woman struggling towards fulfillment and independence, who at the same time wrestles with mental problems. It is written with unflinching honesty, which makes her story as compelling today as it was nearly a century ago.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Undset is an Astute Observer of Human Nature
- De Amazon Customer en 08-05-17
De: Sigrid Undset
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Tender Is the Night
- De: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Narrado por: Therese Plummer
- Duración: 12 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,033
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 914
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 907
Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not his own, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise. A profound study of the romantic concept of character - lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Subtle yet grand
- De jb en 10-12-15
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The Sum of Our Days
- De: Isabel Allende
- Narrado por: Blair Brown, Isabel Allende
- Duración: 11 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 46
Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of the tragic death of her daughter, Paula. Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor, and wisdom, this remarkable memoir is as exuberant and as full of life as its creator. Allende bares her soul while sharing her thoughts on love, marriage, motherhood, spirituality and religion, infidelity, addiction, and memory - and recounts stories of the wildly eccentric, strong-minded, and eclectic tribe she gathers around her and lovingly embraces as a new kind of family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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She does not disappoint
- De ChiChi's Rule en 06-01-22
De: Isabel Allende
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Daughter of Fortune
- De: Isabel Allende
- Narrado por: Blair Brown, Isabel Allende
- Duración: 13 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 359
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 321
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 320
Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaíso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. Just as she meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaquín Andieta, a lowly clerk who works for Jeremy, gold is discovered in the hills of northern California. By 1849, Chileans of every stripe have fallen prey to feverish dreams of wealth. Joaquín takes off for San Francisco to seek his fortune, and Eliza, pregnant with his child, decides to follow him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An adventure to the California Gold Fields of 1849
- De Jean en 07-20-20
De: Isabel Allende
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The Setting Sun
- New Directions Book
- De: Osamu Dazai
- Narrado por: June Angela
- Duración: 4 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 68
Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. Ozamu Dazai died, a suicide, in 1948. But the influence of his book has made "people of the setting sun" a permanent part of the Japanese language, and his heroine, Kazuko, a young aristocrat who deliberately abandons her class, a symbol of the anomie which pervades so much of the modern world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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MORE OSAMU DAZAI TRANSLATIONS PLEASE!!!!!
- De Lucky en 10-19-22
De: Osamu Dazai
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The Museum of Innocence
- De: Orhan Pamuk, Maureen Freely (translator)
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 20 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 318
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 238
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 238
Kemal, scion of one of the city's wealthiest families, is about to become engaged to Sibel, daughter of another prominent family, when he encounters Füsun, a beautiful shopgirl and a distant relation. Once the long-lost cousins violate the code of virginity, a rift begins to open between Kemal and the world of the Westernized Istanbul bourgeosie - a world, as he lovingly describes it, with opulent parties and clubs, society gossip, picnics, and mansions on the Bosphorus, infused with the melancholy of decay.
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5 out of 5 stars
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one of the very best I've ever heard
- De Rebecca Lindroos en 03-06-10
De: Orhan Pamuk, y otros
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Fifty-Two Stories
- 1883-1898
- De: Anton Chekhov, Richard Pevear - translator, Larissa Volokhonsky - translator
- Narrado por: Jim Frangione
- Duración: 20 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
From the celebrated, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and War and Peace: a lavish, masterfully rendered volume of stories by one of the most influential short fiction writers of all time.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Annoying narrator
- De Mida en 07-01-20
De: Anton Chekhov, y otros
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- A Novel
- De: Milan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim - translator
- Narrado por: Richmond Hoxie
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,116
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,845
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,852
A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon, a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals—while her other lover, earnest, faithful, and good, stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and fortuitous events, and everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence we feel “the unbearable lightness of being."
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4 out of 5 stars
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Love, Politics, and Strange Bedfellows
- De Mel en 07-01-12
De: Milan Kundera, y otros
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
- A Novel
- De: Milan Kundera, Aaron Asher - translator
- Narrado por: Richmond Hoxie
- Duración: 8 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 215
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 174
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 174
Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed, and experienced.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A well-lubricated orgy of ideas
- De Darwin8u en 04-26-14
De: Milan Kundera, y otros
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Immortality
- De: Milan Kundera
- Narrado por: Richmond Hoxie
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 149
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 125
Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agnes becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that character springs a novel, a gesture of the imagination that both embodies and articulates Milan Kundera's supreme mastery of the novel and its purpose: to explore thoroughly the great themes of existence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Cerebral Crosswinds in Parisian fields
- De W Perry Hall en 01-13-14
De: Milan Kundera
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The Joke
- De: Milan Kundera
- Narrado por: Richmond Hoxie
- Duración: 11 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 109
All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now, a quarter century after The Joke was first published and several years after the collapse of the Soviet-imposed Czechoslovak regime, it becomes easier to put such implications into perspective in favor of valuing the book (and all Kundera 's work) as what it truly is: great, stirring literature that sheds new light on the eternal themes of human existence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Adder Sowing Thorns in the Garden of the Soul
- De W Perry Hall en 02-28-17
De: Milan Kundera
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Slowness
- A Novel
- De: Milan Kundera, Linda Asher - translator
- Narrado por: Richmond Hoxie
- Duración: 3 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 37
Disconcerted and enchanted, the listener follows the narrator of Slowness through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated by more than 200 years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the comic. Underlying this libertine fantasy is a profound meditation on contemporary life: about the secret bond between slowness and memory, about the connection between our era's desire to forget and the way we have given ourselves over to the demon of speed. And about "dancers" possessed by the passion to be seen, for whom life is merely a perpetual show .
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well done
- De Liam SR en 05-25-19
De: Milan Kundera, y otros
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Laughable Loves
- De: Milan Kundera
- Narrado por: Richmond Hoxie
- Duración: 7 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 39
Milan Kundera is a master of graceful illusion and illuminating surprise. In one of these stories a young man and his girlfriend pretend that she is a stranger he picked up on the road - only to become strangers to each other in reality as their game proceeds. In another a teacher fakes piety in order to seduce a devout girl, then jilts her and yearns for God. In yet another girls wait in bars, on beaches, and on station platforms for the same lover, a middle-aged Don Juan who has gone home to his wife.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Really hard to follow
- De Ingrid en 02-07-24
De: Milan Kundera
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- A Novel
- De: Milan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim - translator
- Narrado por: Richmond Hoxie
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,116
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,845
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,852
A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon, a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals—while her other lover, earnest, faithful, and good, stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and fortuitous events, and everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence we feel “the unbearable lightness of being."
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4 out of 5 stars
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Love, Politics, and Strange Bedfellows
- De Mel en 07-01-12
De: Milan Kundera, y otros
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
- A Novel
- De: Milan Kundera, Aaron Asher - translator
- Narrado por: Richmond Hoxie
- Duración: 8 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 215
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 174
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 174
Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed, and experienced.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A well-lubricated orgy of ideas
- De Darwin8u en 04-26-14
De: Milan Kundera, y otros
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Immortality
- De: Milan Kundera
- Narrado por: Richmond Hoxie
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 149
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 125
Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agnes becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that character springs a novel, a gesture of the imagination that both embodies and articulates Milan Kundera's supreme mastery of the novel and its purpose: to explore thoroughly the great themes of existence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Cerebral Crosswinds in Parisian fields
- De W Perry Hall en 01-13-14
De: Milan Kundera
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The Joke
- De: Milan Kundera
- Narrado por: Richmond Hoxie
- Duración: 11 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 109
All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now, a quarter century after The Joke was first published and several years after the collapse of the Soviet-imposed Czechoslovak regime, it becomes easier to put such implications into perspective in favor of valuing the book (and all Kundera 's work) as what it truly is: great, stirring literature that sheds new light on the eternal themes of human existence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Adder Sowing Thorns in the Garden of the Soul
- De W Perry Hall en 02-28-17
De: Milan Kundera
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Slowness
- A Novel
- De: Milan Kundera, Linda Asher - translator
- Narrado por: Richmond Hoxie
- Duración: 3 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 37
Disconcerted and enchanted, the listener follows the narrator of Slowness through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated by more than 200 years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the comic. Underlying this libertine fantasy is a profound meditation on contemporary life: about the secret bond between slowness and memory, about the connection between our era's desire to forget and the way we have given ourselves over to the demon of speed. And about "dancers" possessed by the passion to be seen, for whom life is merely a perpetual show .
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well done
- De Liam SR en 05-25-19
De: Milan Kundera, y otros
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Laughable Loves
- De: Milan Kundera
- Narrado por: Richmond Hoxie
- Duración: 7 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 39
Milan Kundera is a master of graceful illusion and illuminating surprise. In one of these stories a young man and his girlfriend pretend that she is a stranger he picked up on the road - only to become strangers to each other in reality as their game proceeds. In another a teacher fakes piety in order to seduce a devout girl, then jilts her and yearns for God. In yet another girls wait in bars, on beaches, and on station platforms for the same lover, a middle-aged Don Juan who has gone home to his wife.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Really hard to follow
- De Ingrid en 02-07-24
De: Milan Kundera
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Ignorance
- A Novel
- De: Milan Kundera, Linda Asher - translator
- Narrado por: Richmond Hoxie
- Duración: 4 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 27
Irena and Josef meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned 20 years earlier. Will they manage to pick up the thread of their strange love story, interrupted almost as soon as it began and then lost in the tides of history? The truth is that after such a long absence "their memories no longer match."
De: Milan Kundera, y otros
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Identity
- A Novel
- De: Milan Kundera, Linda Asher - translator
- Narrado por: Richmond Hoxie
- Duración: 3 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 35
There are situations in which we fail for a moment to recognize the person we are with, in which the identity of the other is erased while we simultaneously doubt our own. This also happens with couples - indeed, above all with couples, because lovers fear more than anything else "losing sight" of the loved one. With stunning artfulness in expanding and playing variations on the meaningful moment, Milan Kundera has made this situation - and the vague sense of panic it inspires - the very fabric of this novel.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting
- De Jamy Bee en 12-16-18
De: Milan Kundera, y otros
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The Festival of Insignificance
- A Novel
- De: Milan Kundera
- Narrado por: Richmond Hoxie
- Duración: 2 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 36
Listeners 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.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Review of Little Significance.
- De Darwin8u en 07-14-15
De: Milan Kundera
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Farewell Waltz
- A Novel
- De: Milan Kundera, Aaron Asher - translator
- Narrado por: Richmond Hoxie
- Duración: 7 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 23
In this dark farce of a novel, set in an old-fashioned Central European spa town, eight characters are swept up in an accelerating dance: a pretty nurse and her repairman boyfriend; an oddball gynecologist; a rich American (at once saint and Don Juan); a popular trumpeter and his beautiful, obsessively jealous wife; an disillusioned former political prisoner about to leave his country and his young woman ward. Farewell Waltz poses the most serious questions with a blasphemous lightness that makes us see that the modern world has deprived us even of the right to tragedy.
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2 out of 5 stars
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didn't agree well.
- De Davygamm en 09-26-21
De: Milan Kundera, y otros
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Testaments Betrayed
- An Essay in Nine Parts
- De: Milan Kundera, Linda Asher - translator
- Narrado por: Graeme Malcolm
- Duración: 7 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 11
Milan Kundera has established himself as one of the great novelists of our time with such books as The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Immortality, and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. In Testaments Betrayed, he proves himself a brilliant defender of the moral rights of the artist and the respect due to a work of art and its creator's wishes. The betrayal of both - often by their most passionate proponents - is the principal theme of this extraordinary work. Listeners will be particularly intrigued by Kundera's impassioned attack on society's shifting moral judgments and persecutions of art and artists.
De: Milan Kundera, y otros
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The Art of the Novel
- De: Milan Kundera, Linda Asher - translator
- Narrado por: Graeme Malcolm
- Duración: 4 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Musil. He is especially penetrating on Hermann Broch, and his exploration of the world of Kafka's novels vividly reveals the comic terror of Kafka's bureaucratized universe. Kundera's discussion of his own work includes his views on the role of historical events in fiction, the meaning of action, and the creation of character in the postpsychological novel.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Informative and Inspiring
- De Mo en 11-27-21
De: Milan Kundera, y otros