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Milan Kundera / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Van Pelt Library PG5039.21.U6 Z779 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Bloom's modern critical views
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kundera, Milan--Criticism and interpretation.
- Kundera, Milan.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 172 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, [2003]
- Summary:
- -- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights-- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world -- from the English medievalists to contemporary writers
- Known best for his novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Kundera is also an established poet, playwright, and essayist.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-155) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0791070433
- OCLC:
- 50292231
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