MILAN KUNDERA: THE BODY Phttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifOLITIC

Milan Kundera was that rare thing -- a breakthrough author who'd survived a totalitarian government who managed to create the best kind of subversive art -- a blend of eros, psychoanalysis and politics -- that fused the high modernism which pulled in the philosophy of the Nietzsche's doctrine of the internal return, the pathos of Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents, and a knack for plots that took daring risks with twists of time and character and managed to generate genuine dramatic intensity while continuing to pulse with a jungle of ideas and philosophies. The Unbearable Lightness of Being was his arguable masterpiece, and in its rise to best sellerdom spawned the trappings of literary celebrity, film adaptation, and a stardom which Kundera wisely eschewed, remaining closer to the bone. The only question is, where has he gone? What is he doing? And what in the world is coming next?