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Author Kundera, Milan.

Title Encounter / Milan Kundera ; translated from the French by Linda Asher.

Publication Info. New York : Harper, [2010]
©2010

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Location Call No. Status
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  809.04 KUN    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  809.04 KUN    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  809 K96    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Non Fiction  809 KUNDERA    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  809 KUNDERA    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  809.04 KU    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description x, 178 pages ; 22 cm
Note "Originally published in French as Une rencontre in France in 2009 by Editions Gallimard"--T.p. verso.
Summary 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.
Contents 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.
Subject Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Music -- History and criticism.
Painting -- Appreciation.
Added Author Asher, Linda.
Added Title Rencontre. English
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