Imitation is a strikingly original work of great subtlety, complexity, imagination, originality, and a clear homage to Milan Kunderas Immortality. I have never read a novel quite like this. JASON M. WIRTH, Commiserating with Devastated Things: Milan Kundera and the Entitlements of Thinking <\/p>\n
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 Kunderas most enigmatic thoughts and modernises them. ANDREW BROWN, 2006 recipient of the Sunday Times Fiction Prize for Coldsleep Lullaby <\/p>\n
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, Associate Professor of Literary Theory, World Literatures, and English Literature, Rhodes University <\/p>\n
Imitation happened when an unsuspecting philosopher one day found himself equally outraged by South African president Jacob Zumas Big Man building project in Nkandla; awed, all over again, by Milan Kunderas Immortality; and numbed by the monument to hubris generally known as the highest basilica in all of Christendom, Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Cote dIvoire. <\/p>\n
Leonhard Praeg is head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pretoria. He has published a number of books on African philosophy, violence in the post-colony and African humanism. Imitation is his first novel. <\/p>\n
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