Further Reading
- "Behind the Masks." Times Literary Supplement, No. 3527 (2 October 1969): 1122. (Outlines the structure and main themes of The Joke.)
- Bayley, John. "Fictive Lightness, Fictive Weight." Salmagundi, Vol. 73 (Winter 1987): 84-92. (Discusses the dialectic organization of The Unbearable Lightness of Being in relation to the development of the modern novel.)
- Bold, Alan. "Half Love, Half Joke." Times Literary Supplement, No. 4114 (5 February 1982): 131. (Reviews The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, emphasizing its expression of the problem of existential identity.)
- Caldwell, Ann Stewart. "The Intrusive Narrative Voice of Milan Kundera." Review of Contemporary Fiction 9, No. 2 (Summer 1989): 46-52. (Overview of the function of the narrator's voice in Kundera's fiction.)
- Cooke, Michael. "Milan Kundera, Cultural Arrogance and Sexual Tyranny." Critical Survey 4, No. 1 (1992): 79-84. (Contests Kundera's conception of the novel genre in several theoretical articles as the embodiment of "the European spirit," identifying its flaws and limitations.)
- Gray, Paul. "Broken Circles." Time 116, No. 24 (15 December 1980): 89. (Review of The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, focusing on the character's psychological motivations.)
- Gunn, Dan. "The Book of Betrayals." Times Literary Supplement, No. 4854 (12 April 1996): 21-2. (Concentrates on the effects of misreading and mistranslation in both Testaments Betrayed and Slowness.)
- Lodge, David. "From Don Juan to Tristan." Times Literary Supplement, No. 4234 (25 May 1984): 567-68. (Evaluates The Unbearable Lightness of Being in the context of Kundera's fictional and theoretical oeuvre.)
- O'Rear, Joseph Allen. Review of Slowness by Milan Kundera. Review of Contemporary Literature 16, No. 3 (Fall 1996): 182. (Praises the "laughing, dancing story" of Slowness, finding its conclusion "as evocative of the Marx Brothers as it is of Rabelais.")
- Petro, Peter. "Apropos Dostoevsky: Brodsky, Kundera and the Definition of Europe." In Literature and Politics in Central Europe: Studies in Honour of Markéta Goetz-Stankiewicz, edited by Leslie Miller, Klaus Petersen, Peter Stenberg, and Karl Zaenker, pp. 76-90. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1993. (Analyzes the public debate between Joseph Brodsky and Kundera over the interpretation of Dostoevski's literary vision in relation to the problem of defining Europe.)
- Pochoda, Elizabeth. "The Mysteries of the Status Quo." Nation 223, No. 8 (18 September 1976): 245-47. (Examines the personalities of the characters in Laughable Loves.)
- Ricard, François. "The Fallen Idyll: A Rereading of Milan Kundera." Review of Contemporary Fiction 9, No. 2 (Summer 1989): 17-26. (Meditates on the representation of the idyll and of beauty in Kundera's fiction.)
- Rosenblatt, Roger. "The Only Game in Town." New Republic 173, No. 10 (6 September 1975): 29-30. (Explains the playful but paradoxical propensities of the stories in Laughable Loves.)
- Schubert, P. Z. Review of The Farewell Party by Milan Kundera. World Literature Today 52, No. 4 (Autumn 1978): 663. (Brief review of The Farewell Party, describing it as "a fine blend of politics, sex and humor.")
- Sosa, Michael. Review of The Art of the Novel by Milan Kundera. World Literature Today 62, No. 4 (Autumn 1988): 685. (Summarizes the predominant theme of The Art of the Novel.)
- Stavans, Ilan. "Jacques and His Master: Kundera and His Precursors." Review of Contemporary Fiction 9, No. 2 (Summer 1989): 88-96. (Traces the influence of Cervantes, Sterne, and Diderot on Kundera's writings with respect to the circumstances surrounding the creation of Jacques and His Master.)
- von Kunes, Karen. "The National Paradox: Czech Literature and the Gentle Revolution." World Literature Today 65, No. 2 (Spring 1991): 237-40. (Comparative study of the collective and individual impact of Havel, Hrabal, and Kundera on Czech literature before the fall of communism.)
- Wall, Stephen. "Nuvvles." London Review of Books 11, No. 6 (16 March 1989): 24-5. (Details Kundera's methodology in The Art of the Novel.)
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