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Readings for January
Going against the current —
Authority: 128
Of late I admit that I’ve set reading books aside. Like most Gen Y-ers, I am also as susceptible to attention deficit disorder, or something akin to it. I could not focus on just one thing. Before I realize it, my mind already starts to wander and think of another thing. And this has taken [...]5 days ago -
On compassion
Nikola Tamindzic —
Authority: 522
All languages that derive from Latin form the word “compassion” by combining the prefix “with” ( com- ) and the root meaning “suffering” (Late Latin, passio ). In other languages — Czech, Polish, German, and Swedish for instance — this word is translated by a noun formed of an equivalent prefix ...6 days ago -
Pornografia Redux
PRI's The World —
Authority: 632
Download audio file (wbpod33.mp3) Download MP3 Hailed by Milan Kundera as one of the greatest novelists of the 20th century, Polish novelist and playwright Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969) has not garnered the readership in English he deserves. That may change with the efforts of Danuta Borchardt, who has ...1 week ago -
Milan Kundera: Czechs legendary writer
The Greatest Literary Works —
Authority: 117
The Czech Republic has its share of controversial writers (not to mention filmmakers - Hrabal, Kafka, and Milan Kundera, whose anti-Party stance tended to get him in trouble with the authorities, and his trouble with the ladies tended to get him labeled as a misogynist (hey, it worked for Hemmingway…). Kundera was ...1 week ago -
Interview with Milan Kundera: The Art of Fiction
The Greatest Literary Works —
Authority: 117
INTERVIEWER Why did you choose the farce form for a novel that is not at all meant to be an entertainment? KUNDERA But it is an entertainment! I don’t understand the contempt that the French have for entertainment, why they are so ashamed of the word divertissement. They run less risk of being entertaining than of ...1 week ago -
The digested classic: The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
The Guardian - guardian.co.uk —
Authority: 985
Faber, £8.99 Nietzsches idea of eternal return has perplexed many philosophers. You, though, will merely find my eternal returning to the idea of eternal return over the coming pages merely annoying. But is not annoyance the heaviest of human burdens? Yet does not the absence of annoyance, the lightness, confer the ...1 week ago -
Art works on magic-realism exhibited in Delhi
Thaindian News —
Authority: 740
New Delhi, Dec 11 (IANS) A life-size glass automobile, huge tree installations suspended from the ceiling and an image of Krishna made from hand prints - the Lalit Kala Akademy’s 20th anniversary exhibition, which centres around the theme of magic realism, is a must see in the capital.Titled ‘Lo Real Maravilloso: ...2 weeks ago -
A character in Milan Kundera’s Immortality notices...
mills —
Authority: 546
A character in Milan Kundera’s Immortality notices that “…painters and sculptors from classical days to Raphael and perhaps even to Ingres avoided portraying laughter…a beautiful face was imaginable only in its immobility. Faces lost their immobility, mouths became open, only when the painter wished to ...3 weeks ago -
Kundera on ‘Kafkan’ stories
piran caf —
Authority: 468
Came across this entertaining vignette last night in Milan Kundera’s The Art of the Novel (1986):In one of his books, my friend Josef Skvorecky tells this true story:An engineer from Prague is invited to a professional conference in London, So he goes, takes part in the proceedings, and returns to Prague. Some hours ...3 weeks ago
