Summary
Milan Kundera's new collection of essays is a passionate defense of art in an era that, he argues, no longer values art or beauty. Art is what we possess in the face of evil and the darker side of human nature. With the same mix of emotion and idea that characterizes his novels, Kundera revisits the... Full description
- The painter's brutal gesture : on Francis Bacon
- Novels, existential soundings
- Blacklists, or Divertimento in homage to Anatole France
- The dream of total heritage
- Beautiful like a multiple encounter
- Elsewhere
- My first love
- Forgetting Schoenberg
- The skin : Malaparte's arch-novel.