Further Reading
Criticism
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. A 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.
"Behind the Masks." Times Literary Supplement, No. 3527 (2 October 1969): 1122.
Outlines the structure and main themes of The Joke.
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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