Encounter: Essays
{{short description|2009 essay collection by Milan Kundera}}
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| publisher = Éditions Gallimard
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Encounter: Essays ({{langx|fr|Une rencontre}}) is a 2009 essay collection by the Czech-French writer Milan Kundera. It consists of essays on the works of writers, composers and painters of varying fame and recognition.{{cite news |last= |first= |date=22 August 2010 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/aug/22/encounter-essays-review |title=Encounter: Essays by Milan Kundera |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=20 April 2025 }}{{cite news |last= |first= |date=26 August 2010 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/books/review/Simon-t.html |title=The Language of Exile |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=20 April 2025 }}{{cite news |last= |first= |date=21 August 2010 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/aug/21/encounters-essays-milan-kundera |title=Encounter: Essays by Milan Kundera |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=20 April 2025 }}{{cite news |last= |first= |date=15 August 2010 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-aug-15-la-ca-milan-kundera-20100815-story.html |title=Book review: 'Encounter' by Milan Kundera |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=20 April 2025 }}{{cite news |last= |first= |date=15 May 2015 |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/milan-kundera/encounter/ |title=Encounter |newspaper=Kirkus Reviews |access-date=20 April 2025 }}{{cite news |last= |first= |date= |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/7975553/Encounter-Essays-by-Milan-Kundera-review.html |title=Encounter: Essays by Milan Kundera: review |url-access=subscription |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=20 April 2025 }}
Contents
- The Painter's Brutal Gesture: On Francis Bacon
- Novels, Existential Soundings
- * The Comical Absence of the Comical (Dostoyevsky: The Idiot)
- * Death and the Fuss (Louis-Ferdinand Céline: From Castle to Castle)
- * Love in Accelerating History (Philip Roth: The Professor of Desire)
- * The Secret of the Ages of Life (Gudbergur Bergsson: The Swan)
- * The Idull, the Daughter of Horror (Marek Bieńczyk: Tworki)
- * The Debacle of Memories (Juan Goytisolo: The Curtain Falls)
- * The Novel and Procreation (Gabriel García Márquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude)
- Blacklists, or Divertimento in Homage to Anatole France
- The Dream of Total Heritage
- * A Dialogue on Rabelais and the Misomusists
- * The Dream of Total Heritage in Beethoven
- * The Arch-Novel: An Open Letter for the Birthday of Carlos Fuentes
- * The Total Rejection of Heritage, of Iannis Xenakis (a text published in 1980, with two interventions from 2008)
- Beautiful Like a Multiple Encounter
- Elsewhere
- * Exile as Liberation According to Věra Linhartová
- * The Untouchable Solitude of a Foreigner (Oscar Milosz)
- * Enmity and Friendship
- * Faithful to Rabelais and the Surrealists Who Delved into Dreams
- * On the Two Great Springs, and on the Škvoreckýs
- * From Beneath You'll Breathe the roses (The Last Visit with Ernest Breleur)
- My First Love
- * The Long Race of a One-Legged Runner
- * The Most Nostalgic Opera
- Forgetting Schoenberg
- * No Celebration (a text published in 1995 in the Frankfurter Rundschau]] together with other pieces celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the birth of cinema)
- * What Will Be Left of You, Bertolt?
- * Forgetting Schoenberg
- The Skin: Malaparte's Arch-Novel
References
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External links
- [https://www.gallimard.fr/catalogue/une-rencontre/9782070122844 Gallimard]
{{Milan Kundera}}
Category:2009 non-fiction books
Category:French essay collections