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    Encounter: Essays

    Written by Milan Kundera

    Narrated by Graeme Malcolm

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    About this audiobook

    Milan Kundera's brilliant collection of essays is a passionate defence of art in an era that, he argues, no longer values art or beauty. With the same dazzling mix of emotion and ideas that characterises his bestselling novels, the internationally acclaimed author revisits the artists whose works help us better understand what it means to be human.

    Elegant, startlingly original, and provocative, Encounter combines many of the author's signature themes with personal reflections and stories.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFaber & Faber
    Release dateJun 20, 2013
    ISBN9780571308620
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    Encounter: Essays
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    Milan Kundera

    The Franco-Czech novelist Milan Kundera (1929 - 2023) was born in Brno and lived in France, his second homeland, since 1975. He is the author of the novels The Joke, Life Is Elsewhere, Farewell Waltz, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and the short story collection Laughable Loves—all originally in Czech. His later novels, Slowness, Identity, Ignorance, and The Festival of Insignificance, as well as his nonfiction works, The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain, and Encounter, were originally written in French.

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