Ariel goes to the police
Karl Miller, 4 December 1986
Life is elsewhere
by Milan Kundera, translated by Peter Kussi.
Faber, 311 pp., £9.95, November 1986,0 571 14560 4 Show More
by Milan Kundera, translated by Peter Kussi.
Faber, 311 pp., £9.95, November 1986,
My First Loves
by Ivan Klima, translated by Ewald Oser.
Chatto, 164 pp., £9.95, November 1986,0 7011 3014 8 Show More
by Ivan Klima, translated by Ewald Oser.
Chatto, 164 pp., £9.95, November 1986,
“... Revolution, literature and love, and the roads and side-roads which join them together, are concerns of Kundera and Klima, whose name is a further concern of Kundera’s, and is used for the uxorious philanderer of his novel The Farewell Party. With the arrival of these two Czech writers Central Europe’s roman à K has taken a new turn. There is a sense in which the hero of the latest of Kundera’s novels to appear in Britain is also the hero of Klima’s collection of stories ... ”