"Immortality" Author: Milan Kundera Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House Translator: Wang Zhensun / Zheng Kelu

Agnes, the protagonist of "Immortality", is trapped in a helpless state of existence because of the long-term entanglement of past memories. The story begins with a scene of gesturing to the swimming coach by the swimming pool, which concisely reflects Kundera's superb novel artistic creativity. This book uses the way of novels to talk about immortality, rather than talking about philosophy. His definition of immortality is also very simple: people are not equal to immortality. It is necessary to distinguish between small immortality and great immortality. Small immortality means that a person leaves memories in the hearts of people who know him; great immortality means that a person leaves memories in the hearts of people who don't know him...

Milan Kundera, a novelist, was born in Krbno, Czechoslovakia, and has lived in France since 1975. His novels, The Joke, Life is Elsewhere, The Farewell Waltz, Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, as well as his short story collection Funny Love, were originally written in Czech. His latest novels, Slowness, Identity, and Ignorance, as well as his essay collections The Art of the Novel and The Testament Betrayed, were originally written in French. Jacques and His Master is his representative drama.