In my youth, I fell for the 'bad boy' of the literary world but as I got older I saw firsthand that being a revolutionary comes with a lot of heartache
I so agree with what you're saying here, Leah, especially the way he supported the Jewish people, a brave thing to do. Yours is a site I come back to again and again. And folks here should subscribe. So may be this repeat that follows will get more folks to you. So I'll post on NOTES too
I've even thought of sending something I recently wrote to you--and maybe will. I dunno.
Anyway If you don't mind a repeat, here's a comment I wrote to Sam Kahn about Kundera: I have read everything he wrote, except perhaps the last book--was obsessed with his writing style, with his play with form and his use of what I like to call "modules" in his novels: _The Unbearable Lightness of Being_, a superb example that never left me. I suppose some might call this “fragmentary design.” I could see the importance of form and meaning, how inseparable the two are in all narratives. I don’t dare compare myself to him, but I know his style inspired my short story “Sine Die”—probably the best I ever wrote. My point is that his experimentation and use of tying form and meaning were breakthroughs for me and gave me courage to experiment with form.
On another note, I hold this quote dear from _Testaments Betrayed_: “Of course, every novelist, intentionally or not, draws on his own life; there are entirely invented characters, created out of pure reverie; there are those inspired by a model, sometimes directly, more often indirectly; there are those created from a single detail observed in some person; and all of them owe much to the author’s introspection, to his self-knowledge. The work of the imagination transforms these inspirations and observations so thoroughly that the novelist forgets about them.” ~Mary
Puzzled how. But still happy to be placed on your subscribers' list! :) 'The Forward' is the only site I've seen thus far to point to Kundera's empathy with the int'l Jewish community. Meanwhile, I'll close with an aphorism often quoted by my husband: "If a man is not a Communist at 20, he has no heart. If he's still one at 40, he has no head'. All the very best from Israel.
I so agree with what you're saying here, Leah, especially the way he supported the Jewish people, a brave thing to do. Yours is a site I come back to again and again. And folks here should subscribe. So may be this repeat that follows will get more folks to you. So I'll post on NOTES too
I've even thought of sending something I recently wrote to you--and maybe will. I dunno.
Anyway If you don't mind a repeat, here's a comment I wrote to Sam Kahn about Kundera: I have read everything he wrote, except perhaps the last book--was obsessed with his writing style, with his play with form and his use of what I like to call "modules" in his novels: _The Unbearable Lightness of Being_, a superb example that never left me. I suppose some might call this “fragmentary design.” I could see the importance of form and meaning, how inseparable the two are in all narratives. I don’t dare compare myself to him, but I know his style inspired my short story “Sine Die”—probably the best I ever wrote. My point is that his experimentation and use of tying form and meaning were breakthroughs for me and gave me courage to experiment with form.
On another note, I hold this quote dear from _Testaments Betrayed_: “Of course, every novelist, intentionally or not, draws on his own life; there are entirely invented characters, created out of pure reverie; there are those inspired by a model, sometimes directly, more often indirectly; there are those created from a single detail observed in some person; and all of them owe much to the author’s introspection, to his self-knowledge. The work of the imagination transforms these inspirations and observations so thoroughly that the novelist forgets about them.” ~Mary
Thank you for this, and for sharing! Would love to see your work.
Ok!!! Tomorrow! I’ll send. TY no matter what you decide. 💞
Puzzled how. But still happy to be placed on your subscribers' list! :) 'The Forward' is the only site I've seen thus far to point to Kundera's empathy with the int'l Jewish community. Meanwhile, I'll close with an aphorism often quoted by my husband: "If a man is not a Communist at 20, he has no heart. If he's still one at 40, he has no head'. All the very best from Israel.
Thanks Natalie and glad you are here!
Lovely. Thanks, Leah.
wow short sweet real
he was a phenomenon
your piece phenomenal
Thank you (every time I see that bacon line, I laugh. Too bad I'm a vegetarian! I do love chocolate, though.)
lol yore loss
but i bet yiou can run farther