The Festival of Insignificance

The story of several Parisian friends, whose contemporary gatherings in gardens or at parties blend dreamily with a meeting of Stalin's Politburo, is primarily Kundera's light-hearted and humorous farewell to his themes, his readers, and the world of the novel in general. An uplifting book full of humour and good cheer, and the first prose work that the ninety-one-year-old author, living in Paris, has allowed to be translated into his native language.