tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post6530294999720837764..comments2024-03-21T07:37:30.475-04:00Comments on Light reading: "I cannot use that microphone"Jenny Davidsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02295436498255927522noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-57930137793593079402010-06-16T12:45:50.374-04:002010-06-16T12:45:50.374-04:00Thanks so much for this--that's great about th...Thanks so much for this--that's great about the semicolons & periods!Joelle Bielehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13713131089803388802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-19967016955936998902010-06-14T18:16:11.563-04:002010-06-14T18:16:11.563-04:00Kundera is one of those writers who write the same...Kundera is one of those writers who write the same novel over and over, but at least he managed to get his novel right once - and that is with Immortality, which is an excellent book. His work before Immortality is basically rough drafts of the novel (including Unbearable Lightness) and afterwards he began to write long studies instead of real novels. But Immortality is very much worth a read. A novel that actually fits the tag "post-modern" as opposed to most of the trash labelled as such by people who don't know what the name means (see also Auster, Paul).<br /><br />And JSE, I don't really see how John Irving (a middle-brow Steven King) fits in any category with Kundera...Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06764239527844866487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-81419796221442609162010-06-11T11:49:44.000-04:002010-06-11T11:49:44.000-04:00Weren't we in college at basically the same ti...Weren't we in college at basically the same time? I felt like everyone thought of Kundera as something you might have liked in high school, like John Irving. Maybe I was hanging with THE RIGHT SORT.JSEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12896404802967125567noreply@blogger.com