Identity by Milan Kundera, Linda Asher (Translator)

Identity by Milan Kundera, Linda Asher (Translator)Translated from the French by Linda Asher. Sometimes perhaps only for an instant we fail to recognize a companion; for a moment their identity ceases to exist, and thus we come to doubt our own. The effect is at its most acute in a couple, where our existence is given meaning by our perception of a lover, and theirs of ours.

as an outsider

Told simply and directly from the heart

She knows she should stop

The City Son offers a vivid portrait of a scorned woman’s lifelong obsession with revenge and the devastating ramifications for an impressionable young man

Making use of recently opened archives

while making a nonsense of our perception of a 'now' or a division of time into past

I wanted to lose myself in the small town of Pelion

and wrote down everything without inhibitions or secrecy for the posterity in his three monumental works: Chanakya Niti

My pain is real

Rather than abandoning meritocracy

All the stories are rewarding for their compassionate portrayal of love

of Sylvia Plath's Collected Poems