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♦ Critical Essays on MILAN KUNDERA ♦ Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN CRITICAL ESSAYS ON WORLD LITERATURE Robert Leeker, General Editor McGill University, Montreal Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ... ♦ Critical Essays on "'7' MILAN KUNDERA ♦ edited by PETER PETRO G. K. Hall & Co. New York Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN GRAD 8w8 ~Cf I. l\:cr~5CY c.Gf3 Copyright© 1999 by G. K. Hall & Co. All rights reserved. No pan of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in . any form or by any means, eleccronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without per mission in writing from the Publisher. G. K. Hall & Co. 1633 Broadway New York, NY 10019 Libra,:y of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Critical essays on Milan Kundera / edited by Peter Petro. p. cm. - (Critical essays on world literature) Includes bibliographical references and index. Romanized record. ISBN 0-7838-8464-8 (alk. paper) 1. Kundera, Milan--Criticism and interpretation. I. Petro, Peter. II. Series. PG5039.21.U6Z63 1999 891.8'685409-tc21 98-52728 CIP This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z3948-1992 (Permanence of Paper). 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN qRR-D 82.. 39.22.6~ SLVST' A-1/-41 /'39 For Sonia • Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Contents ♦ . Publisher's Note X1 Introduction 1 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 L. E. DOCTOROW 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 .. VII Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN viii CONTENTS ♦ 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 Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN CONTENTS ix ♦ a 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 Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
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