Encounter - Couverture souple

Kundera, Milan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0061894435 ISBN 13 : 9780061894435

Editeur : Perennial, 2011

Synopsis

“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.

In these provocative and deeply personal essays, Kundera confronts the essential questions of European culture:

• A Defense of Art: A passionate argument for beauty in an era Kundera sees as increasingly hostile to the aesthetic itself.
• Encounters with Genius: Incisive reflections on literary giants from Dostoyevsky to Céline, viewed through the personal lens of a master novelist.
• Modern Art and Music: A stunning analysis of Francis Bacon’s brutal portraiture and a moving exploration of composers from Beethoven to Schoenberg.
• The Novelist’s Perspective: Personal meditations on the craft, heritage, and future of the novel, paying homage to figures from Rabelais to Carlos Fuentes.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

The Franco-Czech novelist Milan Kundera (1929–2023) was born in Brno and lived in France, his second homeland, since 1975 until his death. He is the author of the novels The Joke, Life Is Elsewhere, Farewell Waltz, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and the short story collection Laughable Loves—all originally in Czech. His more recent novels, Slowness, Identity, Ignorance, and The Festival of Insignificance, as well as his nonfiction works, The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain, and Encounter, were originally written in French.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Milan Kundera’s brilliant new 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Perennial
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0061894435
• ISBN 13: 9780061894435
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
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