Kundera’s Man of Feeling
Michael Wood, 13 June 1991
Immortality
by Milan Kundera, translated by Peter Kussi.
Faber, 387 pp., £14.99, May 1991,0 571 14455 1 Show More
by Milan Kundera, translated by Peter Kussi.
Faber, 387 pp., £14.99, May 1991,
Storm 2: New Writing from East and West
edited by Joanna Labon.
93 pp., £5, April 1991,9780009615139 Show More
edited by Joanna Labon.
93 pp., £5, April 1991,
“... is never serious. What is seriousness? It is, Kundera suggests in his introduction to his play Jacques and his Master, what literary critics can’t do without, the ingredient whose absence drives them to panic. ‘Serious is what someone is who believes what he makes others believe.’ A novelist who was serious in this sense would be in bad shape. The ... ”