“Identity” (post 2) by Milan Kundera: Ends as “Treacherous Fantasy”

“And I ask myself, who was dreaming? Who dreamed this story? She? He? Both of them? Each one for the other? And starting when did their real life change into this treacherous fantasy?…At what exact moment did the real turn into the unreal, reality into reverie?” (1, p. 167).

Comment: This short psychological novel with inadvertent features of multiple personality eventually gives up trying to make sense of itself.

1. Milan Kundera. Identity (a novel). Translated from the French by Linda Asher. New York, HarperPerennial, 1997/1999.