Milan Kundera is one of the most interesting and readable prose writers at the turn of the 20th—21st centuries. Immortality, his most thoughtful and at the same time most mysterious novel, became a bestseller of intellectual prose. He fascinates the reader with the sophistication of his style, the complex range of feelings and thoughts of the characters. The great Goethe talks with Hemingway. Bettina von Arnim seeks eternity, insisting on her unearthly feeling for the great Goethe, a woman named Agnes, who has lived in a happy marriage for twenty years, understands that she would like to remain alone after death, and an elderly lady in a swimsuit easily and coquettishly throws out her hand in greeting with a gesture of a young woman. a beautiful woman - the author observes all this through time and space. And it seems that he has a magic glass in his hands, through which in subtle movements and gross thoughts, work, worries, running in circles, illusions of love and a feeling of alienation, one and the main inalienable property of the soul shines through - immortality.