Encounter - Milan Kundera

Cultivated, worldly, charming and spirited...Kundera's values are sane and humane; his impulses generous; his taste, overall, unimpeachable. - Phillip Lopate, San Francisco Chronicle Encounter is the latest addition to the acclaimed body of literary criticism from beloved author Milan Kundera ( The Unbearable Lightness of Being , The Book of Laughter and Forgetting ). Novelist Russell Banks writes, Not since Henry James, perhaps, has a fiction writer examined the process of writing with such insight, authority, and range of reference and allusion. In Encounter , Kundera brilliantly reflects on some of his signature themes and old loves (Rabelais, Fellini, Janacek, Malaparte), on literature, on morality, and on the transformation of civilization as we know it.