Encounter: Essays
| Author | Milan Kundera |
|---|---|
| Original title | Une rencontre |
| Language | French |
| Publisher | Éditions Gallimard |
Publication date | 26 March 2009 |
| Publication place | France |
Published in English | 2010 |
| Pages | 208 |
| ISBN | 9782070122844 |
Encounter: Essays (French: Une rencontre) is a 2009 essay collection by the Czech-French writer Milan Kundera. It consists of essays on the works of writers, composers and painters of varying fame and recognition.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Contents
[edit]- The Painter's Brutal Gesture: On Francis Bacon
- Novels, Existential Soundings
- The Comical Absence of the Comical (Dostoyevsky: The Idiot)
- Death and the Fuss (Louis-Ferdinand Céline: From Castle to Castle)
- Love in Accelerating History (Philip Roth: The Professor of Desire)
- The Secret of the Ages of Life (Gudbergur Bergsson: The Swan)
- The Idull, the Daughter of Horror (Marek Bieńczyk: Tworki)
- The Debacle of Memories (Juan Goytisolo: The Curtain Falls)
- The Novel and Procreation (Gabriel García Márquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude)
- Blacklists, or Divertimento in Homage to Anatole France
- The Dream of Total Heritage
- A Dialogue on Rabelais and the Misomusists
- The Dream of Total Heritage in Beethoven
- The Arch-Novel: An Open Letter for the Birthday of Carlos Fuentes
- The Total Rejection of Heritage, of Iannis Xenakis (a text published in 1980, with two interventions from 2008)
- Beautiful Like a Multiple Encounter
- Elsewhere
- Exile as Liberation According to Věra Linhartová
- The Untouchable Solitude of a Foreigner (Oscar Milosz)
- Enmity and Friendship
- Faithful to Rabelais and the Surrealists Who Delved into Dreams
- On the Two Great Springs, and on the Škvoreckýs
- From Beneath You'll Breathe the roses (The Last Visit with Ernest Breleur)
- My First Love
- The Long Race of a One-Legged Runner
- The Most Nostalgic Opera
- Forgetting Schoenberg
- No Celebration (a text published in 1995 in the Frankfurter Rundschau]] together with other pieces celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the birth of cinema)
- What Will Be Left of You, Bertolt?
- Forgetting Schoenberg
- The Skin: Malaparte's Arch-Novel
References
[edit]- ^ "Encounter: Essays by Milan Kundera". The Guardian. 22 August 2010. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
- ^ "The Language of Exile". The New York Times. 26 August 2010. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
- ^ "Encounter: Essays by Milan Kundera". The Guardian. 21 August 2010. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
- ^ "Book review: 'Encounter' by Milan Kundera". Los Angeles Times. 15 August 2010. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
- ^ "Encounter". Kirkus Reviews. 15 May 2015. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
- ^ "Encounter: Essays by Milan Kundera: review". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 20 April 2025.