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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 ...more
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 ...more

Apr 12, 2019
Gary Dale
marked it as to-read