NMLP P-021938 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Slowness

Milan Kundera · HarperCollins (US) / Faber & Faber (UK) · 1996

First English translation of La lenteur (Gallimard, 1995), the first work of fiction Kundera wrote directly in French. The US HarperCollins issue and the UK Faber and Faber issue both appeared in 1996; the Faber paperback followed in 1997.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-021938 for "Slowness" by Milan Kundera (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-021938, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).