The Festival of Insignificance

"Milan Kundera's first novel since Ignorance in 2002, this is a wryly comic yet deeply serious glance at the ultimate insignificance of life and politics, told through the daily lives of four friends in modern-day Paris. Casting light on the most serious of problems and at the same time saying not one serious sentence; being fascinated by the reality of the contemporary world and at the same time completely avoiding realism - that's THE FESTIVAL OF INSIGNIFICANCE."