Fred Misurella

Understanding Milan Kundera: Public Events, Private Affairs

This is must reading for any student of Milan Kundera's works and the history and philosophy behind them. It contains comments and a brief essay by Kundera himself.

Selected Works

Fiction

"The Search for Giovanni"
A sample chapter from Only Sons (Link to the text).

"A World Made New" (Chapter I of Only Sons)
Published in Paterson Literary Review #36 (January 2008) (Link to text.)

Lies to Live By (short stories)
The Red and the Black of Italian-Americana, these stories disect the essence of contemporary living. (With a link to one of the stories.)

Short Time (a novella)
Uncannily accurate about Vietnam, its soldiers, and their tragic return home.

Literary Criticism

Understanding Milan Kundera: Public Events, Private Affairs
Detailed analysis and interpretation of Milan Kundera's works from The Joke through Immortality.

"A Clear Eye on Life: Renaissance Style in Primo Levi's Writing"
The lead essay in The Legacy of Primo Levi, edited by Stanislao G. Pugliese, published by Palgrave/Macmillan

Quick Links

A wonderful E-zine that printed one of the stories from Lies to Live By

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