Kundera and Kitsch
John Bayley, 7 June 1984
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan Kundera, translated by Henry Heim.
Faber, 314 pp., £9.50, May 1984,9780571132096 Show More
by Milan Kundera, translated by Henry Heim.
Faber, 314 pp., £9.50, May 1984,
“... shapes the novel, sex provides the commentary: a facile arrangement, perhaps, but effective. Like Stendhal, Kundera categorises with engaging relish the different sorts of womaniser, notably those whose obsession is lyrical, founded on a romantic ideal which is continually disappointed and continually reborn, and the epic womaniser, ‘whose inability to be ... ”