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(0)Milan Kundera
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Incites us to reflect on fiction and philosophy, knowledge and truth, and brilliantly illustrates the art of the essay." — The New Republic
""Every novelist's work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of what the novel is. I have tried to express the idea of the novel that is inherent in my own novels."" — Milan Kundera
Kundera brilliantly examines
...3) Immortality
Author
Language
English
Description
Through the actions of three characters--Agnes, her husband, and her sister--and others in contemporary France and Weimar Germany, the author reflects on the image of the individual, the Western cult of sentiment, and the meaning of love.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A short collection of brilliant early essays that offers a fascinating context for the Milan Kundera's subsequent career and holds a mirror to much recent European history. It is also remarkably prescient with regard to Russia's current aggression in Ukraine and its threat to the rest of Europe."--Amazon.
8) Slowness
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
A novel on the theme that the pleasure inherent in a slower rhythm of life has disappeared from our speed-obsessed age. The protagonists are two men, one who has a romance in the 18th Century, the other in the 20th Century. Subsequently, they meet for a morning-after chat. By the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
9) Encounter
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A collection of essays from the Franco-Czech novelist provides a defense for art during an era that he says no longer puts value on art or beauty and discusses works and artists that are important to him.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Set in Czechoslovakia in the 1960's, the story revolves around a young doctor who has a way with women and an aversion to politics. He suddenly finds himself caught up in his country's political turmoil and in a crisis of commitment with the women in his life.
Series
Criterion collection volume 55
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
A Czech doctor, dedicated to promiscuity, is forced to choose between his wife and his lover.
