Encounter

Encounter

Encounter is the latest addition to the acclaimed body of literary criticism from beloved author Milan Kundera (<em>The Unbearable Lightness of Being</em>, <em>The Book of Laughter and Forgetting</em>). 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 <em>Encounter</em>, 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.