To account for this novel, you have to think through how the title and the keyword “insignificance” play out here. It’s a short novel, and it’s a novel of light touches. The structure is not all that dissimilar from The Unbearable Lightness of Being, with expats living in a foreign land being checked in upon by the author as narrator. Here, we have a similar story…a various sort of people living in Paris in more or less contemporary times. They are friends, they talk about life, […]