Oct 30, 2010
The author of the celebrated novel “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” and, my personal favorite of his novels, “Ignorance,” Milan Kundera is a writer whose work I always look forward to reading. His new book, “Encounter,” is a mix of essays and short stories. In it, Kundera offers his personal reflections on artists and writers who have been important to him. In one essay, he compares Philip Roth with Fyodor Dostoevsky; in another, he looks at the contributions to cinema made by the Lumiere brothers and Fellini. As often in his work, he examines memory and forgetting and he offers his