Encounter
eBook - ePub

Encounter

Essays

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Encounter

Essays

About this book

“I can’t imagine reading this book without being challenged and instructed, amused, amazed and aroused, and ultimately delighted.” John Simon, New York Times Book Review

Milan Kundera’s brilliant collection of essays is a passionate defense of art in an era that, he argues, no longer values art or beauty. With the same dazzling mix of emotion and ideas that characterizes his bestselling novels, the internationally acclaimed author revisits the artists whose works help us better understand what it means to be human. Elegant, startlingly original, and provocative, Encounter combines many of the author’s signature themes with personal reflections and stories.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. I. The Painter’s Brutal Gesture: On Francis Bacon
  6. II. Novels, Existential Soundings
  7. III. Blacklists, or Divertimento in Homage to Anatole France
  8. IV. The Dream of Total Heritage
  9. V. Beautiful Like A Multiple Encounter
  10. VI. Elsewhere
  11. VII. My First Love
  12. VIII. Forgetting Schoenberg
  13. IX. The Skin: Malaparte’s Arch-Novel
  14. About the Author
  15. Also by Milan Kundera
  16. Copyright
  17. About the Publisher