Encounter: Essays


Encounter: Essays is a 2009 essay collection by the Czech-French writer Milan Kundera. It consists of essays on the works of writers, composers and painters of varying fame and recognition.

Contents

  1. The Painter's Brutal Gesture: On Francis Bacon
  2. Novels, Existential Soundings
  3. * The Comical Absence of the Comical
  4. * Death and the Fuss
  5. * Love in Accelerating History
  6. * The Secret of the Ages of Life
  7. * The Idull, the Daughter of Horror
  8. * The Debacle of Memories
  9. * The Novel and Procreation
  10. Blacklists, or Divertimento in Homage to Anatole France
  11. The Dream of Total Heritage
  12. * A Dialogue on Rabelais and the Misomusists
  13. * The Dream of Total Heritage in Beethoven
  14. * The Arch-Novel: An Open Letter for the Birthday of Carlos Fuentes
  15. * The Total Rejection of Heritage, of Iannis Xenakis
  16. Beautiful Like a Multiple Encounter
  17. Elsewhere
  18. * Exile as Liberation According to Věra Linhartová
  19. * The Untouchable Solitude of a Foreigner
  20. * Enmity and Friendship
  21. * Faithful to Rabelais and the Surrealists Who Delved into Dreams
  22. * On the Two Great Springs, and on the Škvoreckýs
  23. * From Beneath You'll Breathe the roses
  24. My First Love
  25. * The Long Race of a One-Legged Runner
  26. * The Most Nostalgic Opera
  27. Forgetting Schoenberg
  28. * No Celebration
  29. * What Will Be Left of You, Bertolt?
  30. * Forgetting Schoenberg
  31. The Skin: Malaparte's Arch-Novel