Agnes's Final Afternoon: An Essay on the Work of Milan Kundera

Ricard (French literature, McGill U.) explores ten novels (composed between 1959 and 1999) by Milan Kundera. Imitating the protagonist of Immortality (who impulsively leaves her car to walk in the mountains) Ricard aims to abandon the rules and ambitions of literary criticism and instead reflect on the internal experience of reading Kundera. The volume, which is not indexed, was first published in France in 2003 as Le dernier après-midi d'Agnès by Editions Gallimard. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR