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Immortality is a novel in seven parts, written by Milan Kundera in 1988 in Czech. It was first published in 1990 in French, and then translated into English by Peter Kussi and published in the UK in 1991. The story springs from a casual gesture of a woman, seemingly to her swimming instructor. Immortality is the last of a trilogy that includes The Book of Laughter and Forgetting and The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Plot Divided into seven parts, the novel centers on Agnes, her husband Paul, and her sister Laura. Several of the storylines involve real historical figures. The Face establishes these characters. Immortality describes Goethe's fraught relationship with Bettina, a young woman who aspires to create a place for herself in the pantheon of history by controlling Goethe's legacy after his death. Fighting describes Agnes and Laura fight, while focusing on the deteriorating state of Laura's relationship with Bernard Bertrand. Homo Sentimentalis describes Goethe's afterlife and postmortem friendship with Ernest Hemingway. Chance describes Agnes' death, intersecting with a conversation between Kundera and Professor Avenarius. The Dial introduces a new character, Rubens, who had an affair with Agnes years prior to the onset of the main events in the plot. The Celebration concludes the novel in the same health club where Kundera first observed the inspirational wave gesture.

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Notable quotes

“I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment.”
— Woody Allen, The Illustrated Woody Allen Reader (1993)
“Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”
— Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky (1943).
“If what I assume is true, it is still excellent to be convinced of it, but if there is nothing after death, I will at least during the time before my death be less burdensome to my companions because of complaints, and furthermore this folly of mine will not last long—for that would indeed be an evil—but in a short time will vanish.”
— Plato, Phaedrus, 91a, translated in Kierkegaard, The Concept of Irony, p. 79.
“There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.”
— Sir Thomas Browne, Hydrotaphia, Chapter V.
“Immortality! We bow before the very term. Immortality! Before it reason staggers, calculation reclines her tired head, and imagination folds her weary pinions. Immortality! It throws open the portals of the vast forever; it puts the crown of deathless destiny upon every human brow; it cries to every uncrowned king of men, "Live forever, crowned for the empire of a deathless destiny!"”
— George Douglas, p. 337.
“Let a disciple live as Christ lived, and he will easily believe in living again as Christ does.”
— William Mountford, p. 339.

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Notable quotes

“I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment.”
— Woody Allen, The Illustrated Woody Allen Reader (1993)
“Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”
— Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky (1943).
“If what I assume is true, it is still excellent to be convinced of it, but if there is nothing after death, I will at least during the time before my death be less burdensome to my companions because of complaints, and furthermore this folly of mine will not last long—for that would indeed be an evil—but in a short time will vanish.”
— Plato, Phaedrus, 91a, translated in Kierkegaard, The Concept of Irony, p. 79.
“There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.”
— Sir Thomas Browne, Hydrotaphia, Chapter V.
“Immortality! We bow before the very term. Immortality! Before it reason staggers, calculation reclines her tired head, and imagination folds her weary pinions. Immortality! It throws open the portals of the vast forever; it puts the crown of deathless destiny upon every human brow; it cries to every uncrowned king of men, "Live forever, crowned for the empire of a deathless destiny!"”
— George Douglas, p. 337.
“Let a disciple live as Christ lived, and he will easily believe in living again as Christ does.”
— William Mountford, p. 339.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Immortality is a novel in seven parts, written by Milan Kundera in 1988 in Czech. It was first published in 1990 in French, and then translated into English by Peter Kussi and published in the UK in 1991. The story springs from a casual gesture of a woman, seemingly to her swimming instructor. Immortality is the last of a trilogy that includes The Book of Laughter and Forgetting and The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

Not who you're looking for? Others named Immortality: ability to live forever, or eternal life · 2015 finale of the television series CSI · 1998 single by Celine Dion ft. Bee Gees · episode of Fringe (S3 E13)

Immortality across IJR

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Overview

Immortality is a novel in seven parts, written by Milan Kundera in 1988 in Czech. It was first published in 1990 in French, and then translated into English by Peter Kussi and published in the UK in 1991. The story springs from a casual gesture of a woman, seemingly to her swimming instructor. Immortality is the last of a trilogy that includes The Book of Laughter and Forgetting and The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Plot Divided into seven parts, the novel centers on Agnes, her husband Paul, and her sister Laura. Several of the storylines involve real historical figures. The Face establishes these characters. Immortality describes Goethe's fraught relationship with Bettina, a young woman who aspires to create a place for herself in the pantheon of history by controlling Goethe's legacy after his death. Fighting describes Agnes and Laura fight, while focusing on the deteriorating state of Laura's relationship with Bernard Bertrand. Homo Sentimentalis describes Goethe's afterlife and postmortem friendship with Ernest Hemingway. Chance describes Agnes' death, intersecting with a conversation between Kundera and Professor Avenarius. The Dial introduces a new character, Rubens, who had an affair with Agnes years prior to the onset of the main events in the plot. The Celebration concludes the novel in the same health club where Kundera first observed the inspirational wave gesture.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).