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Laughable Loves
From amazon.com Abe Ravitz, Cleveland Plain Dealer "An intellectual heavyweight and a pure literary virtuoso, Milan Kundera takes some of Freud's most cherished complexes and irreverently whirls them about in acts of legerdemain that capture our darkest, deepest human passionsThe tales in Laughable Loves surprise and illuminateKundera's world is complex, full of mockeries and paradoxes. Life is often brutal and humiliating; it is often blasphemous, funny, irritating." -
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed, and experienced. -
The Art of the Novel
Every novelist's work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of what the novel is. I have tried to express here the idea of the novel that is inherent in my own novels. -- Milan Kundera Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Musil. He is especially penetrating on Hermann Broch, and his exploration of the world of Kafka's novels vividly reveals the comic terror of Kafka's bureaucratized universe. Kundera's discussion of his own work includes his views on the role of historical events in fiction, the meaning of action, and the creation of character in the post-psychological novel. -
相遇
和我的思考以及回憶相遇, 和我的舊主題還有我的舊愛相遇…… 暌違四年,米蘭‧昆德拉最新力作! 與大師一起談文學、談藝術、談音樂! 如果有人問我,我的母國透過什麼在我的美學基因裡留下深遠影響,我會毫不遲疑地回答:透過楊納切克的音樂。 我知道想像力的價值,因此對於費里尼的電影,我始終懷抱謙遜的崇敬之意。 重讀《百年孤寂》的時候,一個奇怪的念頭出現在我的腦海裡:這些偉大的小說裡的主人翁都沒有小孩。我的感覺是,這部小說帶給小說藝術神化的殊榮,同時也是向小說年代的一次告別。 -
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), written by Milan Kundera, is a philosophical novel about two men, two women, a dog and their lives in the Prague Spring of the Czechoslovak Communist period in 1968. Although written in 1982, the novel was not published until two years later, in France. -
生活在别处
《生活在别处》是一个年轻艺术家的肖像画。昆德拉以其独到的笔触塑造出雅罗米尔这样一个形象,描绘了这个年轻诗人充满激情而又短暂的一生,具有“发展小说”的许多特点。在这部作品中,作者对诗人创作过程的分析是微妙而精细的。创作过程当然不仅指下笔写作的过程,而且更广义地指一个诗人的全部成长过程。作者所要表现和所要探究的是,人的心灵所具有的激情,它的产生和它的结果。因而这本书又是一本现代心理小说,表现了一个诗人的艺术感觉的成长。