A model of clarity, grace, and intelligence, François Ricard's book joins the great French tradition of the literary essay as a meditation on the writing of Milan Kundera. 
Agnès's Final Afternoon imitates the protagonist of Kundera's novel Immortality on the last afternoon of her life. Like all readers of fiction, Agnès steps out of her car -- out of the world of planned routes, responsibilities, and social self -- and gives herself up to the discovery of a new landscape, an experience that will transform her. François Ricard's essay enters into the writings of Milan Kundera in much the same way. The landscape he explores includes a chain of ten novels, composed between 1959 and 1999, and two books containing one of the most lucid reflections on the novel. 
From The Joke to Ignorance, Ricard uncovers the richness of theme and character in the novels, their structural composition, polyphony of voices, and innovations of form and subject matter that stretch the boundaries of the novel to a breaking point. 
Readers need not be familiar with all of Milan Kundera's oeuvre to appreciate this unusual and original book. Agnès's Final Afternoon will inspire a sense of wonder and lead you to appreciate the beauty and profundity of Kundera's art.

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

Literature & Fiction

Ricard, François

Essays & Correspondence

Harper

Agnès's Final Afternoon imitates the protagonist of Milan Kundera's novel Immortality on the last afternoon of her life. Like all readers of fiction, Agnès steps out of the world of planned routes, responsibilities, and social self and gives herself up to the discovery of a new landscape, an experience that will transform her. François Ricard's essay enters into the writings of Milan Kundera in much the same way. The landscape he explores includes a chain of ten novels, composed between 1959 and 1999, and two books containing one of the most lucid reflections on the novel.

Harper-perennial

Gabrielle Roy: A Life

Biographies & Memoirs

MCCLELLAND STEWART

Despite the popularity and critical success Gabrielle Roy found as a writer, she lived a life often touched by sadness. In this definitive account of her life, François Ricard draws a penetrating and eloquent portrait that does full honour to his extraordinary subject.

Arts & Literature

La Pratique du roman

Politics & Social Sciences

Daunais, Isabelle

Social Sciences

BOREAL

Traité de médecine ostéopathique du crâne et de l¿articulation temporomandibulaire

Professionals & Academics

MASSON

La littérature contre elle-même: Essais (Collection "Papiers collés") (French Edition)

Boréal Express

Histoire du Québec contemporain t.2: Québec depuis 1930

Linteau, Paul-André

Durocher, René

Robert, Jean-Claude

Génération lyrique (La): Essai sur la vie & l'oeuvre premiers-nés

Inventaire archives pers. Gabrielle Roy

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