Comments on: Friday Procrastination: Link Love http://blog.oup.com/2008/06/links-16/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:48:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mark Thwaite http://blog.oup.com/2008/06/links-16/comment-page-1/#comment-146366 Mark Thwaite Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:40:13 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1873#comment-146366 Back in the late 80's / early 90s (was it!? some time way back then anyways -- pre-web, so it could have been 1960 for all I can remember!), Milan Kundera was widely read. He had gained the enviable position of being both critically acclaimed and yet sexy/trendy. Being seen with a copy of The Unbearable Lightness of Being was as likely to get you a date as a good conversation! Nowadays, he seems to be judged as old hat and our earlier liking for him seems to be felt an aberration -- but, I have to say, for me his brand of existentialism still seems vital and I thought that The Curtain (thanks for the link) was as important as it was hugely entertaining ... Three cheers for Kundera. Still! Back in the late 80’s / early 90s (was it!? some time way back then anyways — pre-web, so it could have been 1960 for all I can remember!), Milan Kundera was widely read. He had gained the enviable position of being both critically acclaimed and yet sexy/trendy. Being seen with a copy of The Unbearable Lightness of Being was as likely to get you a date as a good conversation!

Nowadays, he seems to be judged as old hat and our earlier liking for him seems to be felt an aberration — but, I have to say, for me his brand of existentialism still seems vital and I thought that The Curtain (thanks for the link) was as important as it was hugely entertaining …

Three cheers for Kundera. Still!

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