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Milan Kundera (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)

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Milan Kundera (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)

Harold Bloom, "Milan Kundera (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)"
Chel.sea H.se Publications | 2003 | ISBN: 0791070433 | 172 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB

Though Milan Kundera has published both poetry and drama, he built his reputation as a writer and garned recognition from critics with the psychological and emotional depth of his novels. Learn more about Kundera's work through essays of some of the most respected literary critics.

This book examines the major works of Milan Kundera through full-length critical essays by expert literary critics. In addition, this title features a short biography on Milan Kundera, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.

Contents:

"Freedom is my love" : the works of Milan Kundera / Robert C. Porter
The real avante-garde / Pearl K. Bell
Milan Kundera : dialogues with fiction / Peter Kussi
Kundera and kitsch / John Bayley
Milan Kundera's use of sexuality / Mark Sturdivant
The ambiguities of Milan Kundera / Roger Kimball
Estrangement and irony / Terry Eagleton
On Kundera / Italo Calvino
The book of laughter and forgetting : Kundera's narration against narration / Ellen Pifer
Kundera's laws of beauty / James S. Hans
The cyclic form of laughable loves / Michael Carroll
Milan Kundera : meaning, play, and the role of the author / John O'Brien
Time and distance / Tom Wilhelmus
Milan Kundera : the search for self in a post-modern world / Vicki Adams.

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