Agnés's Final Afternoon

This highly original book imitates the protagonist, Agnés, of Kundera,s novel Immortality. Like all readers of fiction, when Agnés steps out of the car, she steps out of the worl of planned routes, responsibilities, and social self, and gives herself up to the discovery of a new landscape, an experience that will transform her. Francois Ricard,s beautiful essay enters into the writings of Milan Kundera in munch the same way. The landscape he explores in Agnés,s Final Afternoon includes a chain of ten novels, composed between 1959 and 1999. He takes us trought the themes and characters of the novels, their structural composition, and innovations of form and content that stretch the boundaries of the novel to breaking point.