Encounter
Kundera, Milan2010
Book
With the same dazzling mix of emotion and idea that characterizes 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, Leo Janacek's music, the films of Federico Fellini, as well as to the novels of Philip Roth, Dostoyevsky, and Garcia Marquez, among others. He also takes up the challenge of restoring to their rightful place the work of major writers like Anatole France and Curzio Malaparte who have fallen into obscurity. Milan Kundera's signature themes of memory and forgetting, the experience 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 Novel, Testaments Betrayed and The Curtain.
Main title:
Encounter / Milan Kundera ; translated from the French by Linda Asher.
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Imprint:
New York, NY : Faber and Faber, 2010.
Collation:
viii, 178 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
"Essays"--Cover.First published in French as Une Rencontre by Editions Gallimard, 2009.Translated from the French.
Shelving notes:
15725 0000049320 1 18-11-2010 99 nyctro 19-11-2010 7
Contents:
The painter's brutal gesture: on Francis BaconNovels, existential soundingsBlacklists, or divertimento in homage to Anatole FranceBeautiful like a multiple encounterElsewhereMy first loveForgetting SchoenbergThe skin: Malaparte's arch-novel.
ISBN:
9780571250899
Dewey class:
809.04
Language:
EnglishFrench
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BRN:
204220
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| Library at the Dock | -Literature | LITER 809.04 KUND | AvailableRecently returned |