Critical Essays on Milan Kundera

309 Pages·1999·68.08 MB·English

by  Peter Petro

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Critical Essays on
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CRITICAL ESSAYS
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WORLD LITERATURE
Robert Leeker, General Editor
McGill University, Montreal
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Critical essays on Milan Kundera / edited by Peter Petro.
p. cm. - (Critical essays on world literature)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN 0-7838-8464-8 (alk. paper)
1. Kundera, Milan--Criticism and interpretation. I. Petro,
Peter. II. Series.
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Contents
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Introduction
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PETER PETRO
REVIEWS
A Review of Life Is Elsewhere and
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting 15
MARIA NEMCOVA. BANERJEE
Overlapping Delusions 18
ELIZABETH POCHODA
Czech Angels (Review of The Book of Laughter and Forgetting] 21
JOHN UPDIKE
Four Characters under Two Tyrannies:
The Unbearable Lightness of Being 26
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INTERVIEWS
Milan Kundera Interview 3 3
ALAIN FINKJELKRAUT
Journey into the Maze: An Interview with Milan Kundera 45
Pl.Essix
FRANCINE DU GRAY
Conversations with Milan Kundera 5 3
JORDAN ELGRABLY
Conversation with Milan Kundera on the Art of the Novel 69
CHRISTIAN SALMON
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OPEN LETTERS
Between East and West: A Letter to Milan Kundera 83
ROBERT BOYERS
An Open Letter to Milan Kundera 106
NORM.AN PODHORETZ
ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
Kunderian Paradoxes 119
MILAN )UNGMANN
"Narrative symposium" in Milan Kundera's Thejoke 125
LUBOMtR DOLEZEL
Milan Kundera, and the Idea of the
Author in Modern Criticism 13 7
DAVID LODGE
Genre and Paradigm in Milan Kundera's
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting 15 1
HERBERT EAGLE
Kundera's Quartet (On The Unbearable Lightness of Being) 184
GUY SCA.RPETTA
Satan's Point of View: Towards a
Reading of Life Is Elsewhere 19 3
RICA.RD
FRANCOIS
The Ambiguities of Milan Kundera 198
ROGER KIMBALL
Milan Kundera's Central Europe 210
lADISLAV MATEJKA
Seeing through the Opposition: Kundera, Deconstruction,
and Feminism: Immortality 217
JOHN O 'BRIEN
A Body of One's Own: The Body as Sanctum of
Individual Integrity in Kundera's
The Unbearable Lightness of Being 231
MARJORIE E. RHINE
Kundera's Sacred Cows and Betes Noires 242
MARKETA GOETZ-STANKIEWICZ
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The Art of Bufoonery: The Czech Joke la
Commedia dell'arte Style in Kundera's
French Novel Slowness 255
KAREN VON KUNES
Nostalgia con Brio: Kundera's Slowness 264
MARIA NtMCOVA. BANERJEE
Selected Bibliography 285
Index 287
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