41. Milan Kundera On Ecstasy milan kundera on ecstasy. This is a quote from milan kundera s book Testaments Betrayed (1993). I recall my childhood sitting at the piano, I would throw http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~vl/notes/kundera.html

Milan Kundera on ecstasy This is a quote from Milan Kundera 's book Testaments Betrayed I recall my childhood: sitting at the piano, I would throw myself into passionate improvisations for which I needed nothing but a C-minor chord and the subdominant F-minor, played fortissimo over and over again. The two chords and the endlessly repeated primitve melodic motif made me experience an emotion more intense than any Chopin, any Beethoven, has ever given me. (One time my musician father, completely furious I never saw him so furious before or after rushed into the room, lifted me off the piano stool, and with a disgust he could barely control, carried me into the dining room and set me down under the table.) What I was experiencing during those improvisations was ecstasy . What is ecstasy? The boy banging on the keyboard feels an enthusiasm (or a sorrow, or a delight), and the emotion rises to such a pitch of intensity that it becomes unbearable: the boy flees into the state of blindness and deafness where everything is forgotten, even oneself. Through ecstasy, emotion reaches its climax, and thereby at the same time its negation (its oblivion). Ecstasy means being "outside oneself," as indicated by the etymology of the Greek word: the act of leaving one's position (

42. Milan Kundera Discussion milan kundera gripped me from the time that I read The Unbearable Lightness of Being. He hooked me with the first line by quoting Nietzsche which made me http://www.gnooks.com/discussion/milan kundera.html

gnod music books movies The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel (Perennial Classics) Released 1999 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Released 1999 The Joke (Definitive Version) Released 1993 The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts Released 2007 Immortality (Perennial Classics) Released 1999 The Art of the Novel (Perennial Classics) Released 2003 Slowness: A Novel Released 1997 Identity: A Novel Released 1999 Laughable Loves Released 1999 Life Is Elsewhere Released 2000 Discussion: Milan Kundera i was just wondering if slowness would be a good novel to write a senior english paper on? If you're asking the question then No it wouldn't be i have found kundera at his best in "laughable loves", which is a collection of his short stories. but, he is more famous for his novels "immortality", "unbearable lightness of being", "the book of laughter and forgeting", etc. he is good. rather very good. any insights on how Kundera's views of history (in "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting") are reflected by his thoughts on technology? Right from the begnning of his carrier, reading his early novels 'The joke' and 'Life is elsewhere' and (may be more importantly) 'Laughable loves' I could feel touches of a great and differnt novelist. If Marqueze is one of the two poles of second half of twentieth century novel, he is certainly the other pole.

43. The Curtain - Milan Kundera A review, and links to other information about and reviews of The Curtain by milan kundera. http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/kunderam/curtain.htm

A Literary Saloon Site of Review. Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. Contents: Main the Best the ... Links to e-mail us: support the site buy us books ! Amazon wishlist the complete review - literature The Curtain by Milan Kundera general information review summaries our review links ... about the author Title: The Curtain Author: Milan Kundera Genre: Non-fiction Written: 2005 (Eng. 2007) Length: 168 pages Original in: French Availability: The Curtain - US The Curtain - UK The Curtain - Canada Le rideau - Canada Le rideau - France Der Vorhang - Deutschland An Essay in Seven Parts French title: Le rideau Translated by Linda Asher - Return to top of the page - Our Assessment: B+ : nice essay on the novel and literature See our review for fuller assessment. Review Summaries Source Rating Date Reviewer The Economist Financial Times Jonathan Derbyshire FAZ Andreas Kilb The Guardian A+ Craig Raine Independent on Sunday Tim Martin The LA Times Susan Salter Reynolds The Nation William Deresiewicz Franz Haas New Statesman Steven Poole The NY Sun Alec Solomita The NY Times Book Rev.

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Milan Kundera Q U O T E S T O I N S P I R E Y O U Great quotes to inspire, empower and motivate you to live the life of your dreams and become the person you've always wanted to be! Anger A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth. Compassion T here is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes. Future P eople are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. Image T he reign of imagagology begins where history ends.

48. Milan Kundera From HarperCollins Publishers The FrancoCzech novelist milan kundera was born in Brno and has lived in France, his second homeland, since 1975. He is the author of the novels The Joke, http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/5517/Milan_Kundera/index.aspx

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51. Milan Kundera - Filmography - Movies.com milan kundera s Filmography From The Joke to The Unbearable Lightness of Being. http://movies.go.com/milan-kundera/f1081413

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52. Milan Kundera Czech writer, milan kundera was born in Brno in 1929. He was, along with Vaclav Havel and a number of other Czech artists, a political activist critical of http://contemporarylit.about.com/od/authorprofiles/p/kundera.htm

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54. Powell's Books - The Joke By Milan Kundera All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now, a quarter century after The http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=9780060995058

55. History Of Intellectual Culture 2006 Vol. 5 No. 1 This article examines milan kundera’s perspective on politics and the mission of milan kundera, The Art of the Novel, translated from the French by http://www.ucalgary.ca/hic/website/2006vol6no1/articles/article_grenier.html

History of Intellectual Culture, Volume 6, No. 1 ISSN 1492-7810 http://www.ucalgary.ca/hic Click here for a printable PDF. To learn more about PDFs click here. Milan Kundera on Politics and the Novel Yvon Grenier Abstract . Milan Kundera This article examines Milan Kundera's perspective on the contrasting logics of art and politics. It is the product of a broader research project on the essayistic works of writers and intellectuals who participated actively in the political debates of their time while claiming to have the ability to examine the realm of politics from outside, fortified with the superior cognitive and moral elixir of art. Kundera's ideas are elegantly formulated in essays such as "The Art of the Novel" ("L'art du roman"), "Testaments Betrayed" ("Les testaments trahis"), and recently "Le rideau" ("The Curtain"; not yet translated into English). Most of his thought on art and politics is the object of literary experimentation in his novels, either in the thematic structure of the novels themselves, or in self-standing reflections and digressions formulated by the characters or the narrator. This particular article focuses mainly on Kundera's essays, essentially because this is where Kundera explicitly and intentionally uses a propositional register that lends itself to the universality of the law of contradiction.

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58. Matthew Yglesias (July 16, 2007) - Milan Kundera (Culture) milan kundera. 16 Jul 2007 0825 am. Ezra Klein The Unbearable Lightness of Being is something like 65% of the greatest book ever written and 35% of http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/07/milan_kundera.php

document.write(''); Main Milan Kundera 16 Jul 2007 08:25 am Ezra Klein The Unbearable Lightness of Being is something like 65% of the greatest book ever written and 35% of something you wrote for a freshman philosophy class and are now embarrassed of." And yet, in my view The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is like this but even more so. What's more, I think the whole kitsch business from Lightness of Being has been given new relevance by the Bush years, Fox News, etc. freedom fries, freedom isn't free, etc. Permalink Comments (4) Share This var addthis_pub = 'QQ1EPAI6Z0QTZVGS'; Comments (4) I've always just thought of ULB as nothing but Czechs n Sex, and found it enjoyable at that. If you try to think of it as serious philosophy it does become pretty silly pretty quickly. July 16, 2007 9:06 AM Kundera is strange like that all of his stuff reads like a combination of the most insightful things you've ever heard and near poetry of expression with dumb ass cliches and bass-ackwards goofball philosophy. I guess its part of his charm, but its not something you normally run into when not reading Robert Anton Wilson or some other joker from that era. July 16, 2007 9:06 AM

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60. Kate's Book Blog: Milan Kundera On The History Of Art From milan kundera, The Curtain An Essay in Seven Parts (translated from the French by Linda Asher, 2006). Posted by Kate S. at 1241 AM http://katesbookblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/milan-kundera-on-history-of-art.html

skip to main skip to sidebar Kate's Book Blog Books that make me think. Saturday, November 10, 2007 Milan Kundera on the History of Art Milan Kundera on the history of art: Applied to art, the notion of history has nothing to do with progress; it does not imply improvement, amelioration, an ascent; it resembles a journey undertaken to explore unknown lands and chart them. The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not say. Flaubert's poetics does not devalue Balzac's, any more than the discovery of the North Pole renders obsolete the discovery of America. From Milan Kundera, The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts (translated from the French by Linda Asher, 2006). Posted by Kate S. at 12:41 AM Labels: Quotations 2 comments: Seachanges said... I have this book on my bookshelf and read parts when the mood takes me: it has wonderful insights into novels and in particular liked his piece on the beauty of death, discussing the question of why Anna Karenina kills herself (pp.21-25) 11/11/2007 2:19 PM Jake said...

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