The Czech writer Milan Kundera, b. Apr. 1, 1929, has lived in France since 1975, persuaded to self-exile by the censoring or suppression of his work by the government of his native country. Kundera has long denied any political motivation in his writings, however. His work is always humorous, skeptical, and fundamentally pessimistic in describing the universal human condition, whether under Communism or elsewhere. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979; Eng. trans., 1980) is his most celebrated novel. Other highly regarded works include The Joke (1967; Eng. trans., 1982); Laughable Loves, a collection of short stories originally published in the 1960s (Eng. trans., 1974); Life Is Elsewhere (1969; Eng. trans., 1974); and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984; Eng. trans., 1984). In The Art of the Novel (1988), a collection of essays, Kundera repeats his conviction that the novel must be "autonomous," created independent of any system of political belief.
Milan Kundera's new collection of essays is a passionate defence of art in an era that, he argues, no longer values art or beauty. With the same dazzling mix of emotion and idea that characterises his novels he illuminates the art and artists who remain important to him and whose work helps us better understand the world. An astute and brilliant reader of fiction, Kundera applies these same gifts to the reading of Francis Bacon's paintings, Leoš Janáček's music, the film of Federico Fellini, as well as to the novels of Philip Roth, Dostoevsky and Gabriel García Márquez, among others. He also takes up challenge of restoring to their rightful place the works of major writers such as Anatole France and Curzio Malaparte whohae fallen into obscurity.
Milan Kundera's signature themes of memory and forgetting , the expericence of exile, and his spirited championing of modernist art mark these essays. Art, he argues, is what we have to cleave to in the face of evil, against the expression of the darker side of human nature. Elegant, startlingly original and provocative, "Encounter" follows Kundera's essay Collections, "The Art of the Nove;", "Testaments Betrayed" and "The Curtain"
来源:南方都市报 2009-08-11 07:58:03 作者:彭砺青 拾起米兰·昆德拉的新书,心里一直围绕着“相遇”这个词打转,很自然地想到昆德拉与谁相遇。《被背叛的遗嘱》或《小说的艺术》的读者,可以说出昆德拉心中的偶像,他们是法国十七世纪小说家拉伯雷、俄国小...
評分来源:南方都市报 2009-08-11 07:58:03 作者:彭砺青 拾起米兰·昆德拉的新书,心里一直围绕着“相遇”这个词打转,很自然地想到昆德拉与谁相遇。《被背叛的遗嘱》或《小说的艺术》的读者,可以说出昆德拉心中的偶像,他们是法国十七世纪小说家拉伯雷、俄国小...
評分 評分凤凰卫视8月27日《开卷八分钟》,以下为文字实录: 梁文道:既然昨天说到昆德拉,我们不妨今天继续接着介绍昆德拉的一本新著,这本新著其实新被引进大陆的就是我手上的这本《相遇》。那这个相遇呢,其实是他的一连串短篇的,当然还有长篇的评论文章,谈的是一些昆德拉觉得特...
評分怎麼有些地方好像一稿多投
评分怎麼有些地方好像一稿多投
评分Beautiful encounter
评分怎麼有些地方好像一稿多投
评分Beautiful encounter
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