REVIEW: Identity A Novel (Milan Kundera)

Milan Kundera’s Identity is a book about becoming, about the way in which identity ebbs and flows. Nothing happens in isolation; every action triggers a reaction between Chantal and Jean-Marc. This sense of change is contrasted with a Kafkaesque sense of anxiety, with doors being shut, the sensation of losing one’s autonomy, and feeling of being stripped of one’s identity. She is naked, but they…