Title: Understanding Milan Kundera : public events, private affairs /
Authors: Misurella, Fred, 1940-
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press,
Year: 1993
Subjects: Kundera, Milan Criticism and interpretation.
Contents: Ch. 1. Introduction: An Approach to the Novels and Their Forms -- Ch. 2. Human Possibilities: Kafka, Diderot, and the World of Jacques and His Master -- Ch. 3. A Different World: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting -- Ch. 4. An Old World in the New: The Joke -- Ch. 5. Poet, Traitor, Mama's Boy, Spy: Life Is Elsewhere -- Ch. 6. Man's Faith, Earth's Fate: The Farewell Party -- Ch. 7. Longing for Paradise: The Unbearable Lightness of Being -- Ch. 8. The Possibilities of Human Existence: Immortality -- Ch. 9. Amid Chaos, the Survival of Form: Laughable Loves -- Ch. 10. Conclusion: The Art of the Novel.