Playful romances

"Romantic Affairs" has always been considered the starting point of Milan Kundera's novel project. It is a clever combination of clumsy stories, eccentric characters, and comic scenes, addressing topics dear to the writer: love and impossible fidelity, identity and its secrets, misunderstandings and communication problems, political repression... Besides his smooth and playful style, Kundera, as usual, pushes us to think about the mystery of human relationships and their complexities, especially relationships between spouses. His stories are full of phrases and sayings that made this novel a form of writing that prompts the reader to question himself and his relationships with others. "The greatest calamity that can befall a man is a happy marriage, so much so that he no longer has hope for divorce."