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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.