Encounter

Encounter is the latest addition to the acclaimed body of literary criticism from beloved author Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being The Book of Laughter and Forgetting). Novelist Russell Banks writes “Not since Henry James perhaps has a fiction writer examined the process of writing with such insight authority and range of reference and allusion.” In Encounter Kundera brilliantly reflects on some of his signature themes and old loves (Rabelais Fellini Janacek Malaparte) on literature on morality and on the transformation of civilization as we know it.