Imitation

✍ Scribed by Leonhard Praeg

• Publisher: University Of KwaZulu-Natal Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 314
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"Imitation is a strikingly original work of great subtlety, complexity, imagination, originality, and a clear homage to Milan Kundera's Immortality. I have never read a novel quite like this."--Jason M. Wirth, Commiserating With Devastated Things: Milan Kundera and the Entitlements of Thinking "Imitation is challenging, ambitious and intelligent. It is a fascinating and adventurous parallel to Immortality that is intriguingly and playfully managed; an impressive and carefully considered novel that takes some of Milan Kundera's most enigmatic thoughts and modernises them."--Andrew Brown, 2006 recipient of the Sunday Times Fiction Prize for Coldsleep Lullaby *With stylistic virtuosity, Praeg successfully enacts the tempestuous relationship between philosophy and fiction while elegantly and eloquently exploring the relationship between coloniser and colonised subjects. It is a brilliant, sparkling novel that heralds a very thoughtful, new voice on the South African literary scene. --Sam Naidu, Assoc. Prof. of Literary Theory, Rhodes U. [Subject: Fiction, African Studies]

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Author’s Note
Part One Charisma
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Part Two The Pole of Plenitude
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Part Three Rivalry
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Part Four Buffon’s Needle
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Part Five Chance
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Part Six Homo Addictus
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Part Seven Angelocracy
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