Amelia Chen’s Reviews > Immortality > Status Update

On immortality - the one that Goethe talks about has nothing in common with religious faith in an immortal soul. What Kundera argues is for the quiet, earthly immortality of those who after death remain in the memory of posterity - everyone can achieve immortality to a certain degree, but it can be distinguished between minor (those who knew them) and great immortality (those who didn’t) ie artists and statesmen