Encounter
Book - 2010 809.04 Ku None on shelf No requests on this item
Sign in to request
Location & Checkout Length | Call Number | Checkout Length | Item Status |
---|---|---|---|
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout |
809.04 Ku | 4-week checkout | Due 05-15-2024 |
"Originally published in French as Une rencontre in France in 2009 by Editions Gallimard"--T.p. verso.
The painter's brutal gesture : on Francis Bacon -- Novels, existential soundings -- Blacklists, or Divertimento in homage to Anatole France -- The dream of total heritage -- Beautiful like a multiple encounter -- Elsewhere -- My first love -- Forgetting Schoenberg -- The skin : Malaparte's arch-novel.
Milan Kundera's new collection of essays is a passionate defense of art in an era that, he argues, no longer values art or beauty. Art is what we possess in the face of evil and the darker side of human nature. With the same mix of emotion and idea that characterizes his novels, Kundera revisits the artists who remain important to him and whose works help us better understand the world we live in and what it means to be human. An astute reader of fiction, Kundera brings his extraordinary critical gifts to bear on the paintings of Francis Bacon, the music of Leoš Janáček, and the films of Federico Fellini, as well as the novels of Philip Roth, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Gabriel García Márquez, among others. He also seeks to restore to its rightful place the work of Anatole France and Curzio Malaparte, major writers who have fallen into obscurity. --From publisher description.
REVIEWS & SUMMARIES
Booklist ReviewPublishers Weekly Review
Summary / Annotation
Table of Contents
Fiction Profile
Author Notes
COMMUNITY REVIEWS
Kundera is the best submitted by KatyaS on July 12, 2019, 9:50pm Kundera is the best
PUBLISHED
New York : Harper, c2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: x, 178 p. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0061894419
9780061894411
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Asher, Linda.
SUBJECTS
Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Music -- History and criticism.
Painting -- Appreciation.