Slowness

Milan Kundera's 1995 novel contrasting the slowness of 18th-century erotic pleasure with the speed of modern life — arguing that speed is a form of amnesia, a way to avoid encountering the self.

Makes the philosophical argument that slowness and memory are linked — that speed is the modern mechanism of forgetting, of avoiding the weight of experience — connecting the culture of speed to the culture of shallow experience and making slowness a form of presence and courage.