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Kent Winward
May 30, 2011 rated it really liked it
Shelves: literary, essay
I've been reading a lot of Kundera lately (The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Laughable Loves) and so I finally finished off the book of essays I'd been reading off and on for over a year and a half.

I also downloaded a sample from of book of essays on Kundera by Harold Bloom in which Bloom describes "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" as a Period Piece.

After reading Encounters, I think that Kundera must have pissed off Bloom and his Western Canon-ic thinking by consistently challenging the di
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Patty
Aug 27, 2011 marked it as to-read
Shelves: non-fiction
Gary Dale
Apr 12, 2019 marked it as to-read