3.9
Romans literatuur
""An intellectual heavyweight and a pure literary virtuoso, Milan Kundera takes some of Freud's most cherished complexes and irreverently whirls them about in acts of legerdemain that capture our darkest, deepest human passions. . . . The tales in Laughable Loves surprise and illuminate. . . . Kundera's world is complex, full of mockeries and paradoxes. Life is often brutal and humiliating; it is often blasphemous, funny, irritating."" — Cleveland Plain Dealer
Milan Kundera is a master of graceful illusion and illuminating surprise. In one of these stories a young man and his girlfriend pretend that she is a stranger he picked up on the road—only to become strangers to each other in reality as their game proceeds. In another a teacher fakes piety in order to seduce a devout girl, then jilts her and yearns for God. In yet another girls wait in bars, on beaches, and on station platforms for the same lover, a middle-aged Don Juan who has gone home to his wife. Games, fantasies, and schemes abound in all the stories while different characters react in varying ways to the sudden release of erotic impulses.
© 2012 HarperAudio (Luisterboek): 9780062215550
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 19 juni 2012
3.9
Romans literatuur
""An intellectual heavyweight and a pure literary virtuoso, Milan Kundera takes some of Freud's most cherished complexes and irreverently whirls them about in acts of legerdemain that capture our darkest, deepest human passions. . . . The tales in Laughable Loves surprise and illuminate. . . . Kundera's world is complex, full of mockeries and paradoxes. Life is often brutal and humiliating; it is often blasphemous, funny, irritating."" — Cleveland Plain Dealer
Milan Kundera is a master of graceful illusion and illuminating surprise. In one of these stories a young man and his girlfriend pretend that she is a stranger he picked up on the road—only to become strangers to each other in reality as their game proceeds. In another a teacher fakes piety in order to seduce a devout girl, then jilts her and yearns for God. In yet another girls wait in bars, on beaches, and on station platforms for the same lover, a middle-aged Don Juan who has gone home to his wife. Games, fantasies, and schemes abound in all the stories while different characters react in varying ways to the sudden release of erotic impulses.
© 2012 HarperAudio (Luisterboek): 9780062215550
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 19 juni 2012
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The worst Kundera I have yet read (almost read them all....). Why? Self-indulgent explorations by a younger male author into the banality of relationships between insecure, vain and immature or hyper vulnerable people. Love proper is never found. Men are deemed incompatible with women and women on the whole whimsical or disgusting. This is an arrogant and cynical Kundera going round in familiar and tedious, tiny circles that have been gone around in with greater delivery, depth and more subtlety in later works.
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