Translated by Linda AsherRead by Richmond Hoxie Set in modern-day Paris, The Festival of Insignificance follows four friends who run into each other in the Luxembourg Gardens, attend parties, and conduct a long-running exchange on sex, desire, history, art, and even the meaning of human existence. Kundera pokes fun at our sense of self-importance, and one of the friends, Ramon, proposes that we rejoice in the freedom of recognizing our own insignificance. What a liberating thought! The Festival of Insignificance takes up all the themes that have informed this great writers fiction, embracing the comic and laughing at a culture that has lost what is most vital to life that necessary and seemingly elusive sense of humor. ,
