signed-firsts
Slowness Signed First Edition Reference
La lenteur (Gallimard, 1995; English: HarperCollins, 1996) is Kundera’s first novel written entirely in French — a short, playful meditation on slowness as a value, contrasting an eighteenth-century libertine encounter with a modern academic conference. The shift to French marked Kundera’s definitive identification as a French rather than Czech writer.
Signed Copy Market Values
- Signed English first: $75–$175
- Unsigned English first: $8–$15
A minor but elegant Kundera title — significant primarily as the marker of his linguistic transformation.