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Milan Kundera _ Encounter
The formal innovations of the great masters always have a certain discreetness about them; such is true perfection; only among the small masters does novelty seek to call attention to itself.
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Milan Kundera _ Encounter
لم يبتلع التاريخ أفكاره و عواطفه فقط، بل ابتلع زمن حياته و إيقاعها، إنه الرجل الذي التهمه التاريخ، إنه ليس أكثر من حشو بشري للتاريخ. و قد كانت للروائي جرأة إلتقاط هذا الهول
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Milan Kundera _ Encounter
Isn't that exactly the definition of biography? An artificial logic imposed on an 'incoherent succession of images'?
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Milan Kundera _ Encounter
He looks at houses, chateaus, forests, and thinks about the countless generations who used to see those things and who are gone now; and he understands that everything he is seeing is oblivion; pure oblivion, the oblivion whose absolute state will soon be achieved, the moment he himself is gone. And again I think about the obvious idea {that astoundingly obvious idea} that everything that exists {nation, thought, music} can also not exist.
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Milan Kundera _ Encounter
{God} being the old man invented in order to, and with whom to, hold long conversations.
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Milan Kundera _ Encounter
Bacon's portraits are an interrogation on the limits of the self. Up to what degree of distortion does an individual still remain himself? To what degree of distortion does a beloved person still remain a beloved person? For how long does a cherished face growing remote through illness, through madness, through hatred, through death still remain recognizable? Where is the border beyond which a self ceases to be a self?
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Milan Kundera _ Encounter
للتجديدات الشكلية التي يقوم بها الأساتذة الكبار, دائماً, أمر ما خفي, وتلك هي علامة التجويد الكبرى. التجديد لا يبدو ذا نزوع للفت الإنتباه إلا عند الأساتذة الصغار.
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Milan Kundera _ Encounter
Art must always stand guard against stirring emotions that lie outside the aesthetic: sexual arousal, terror, disgust, shock.
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Milan Kundera _ Encounter
The novel was born with the Modern Era, which made man, to quote Heidegger, the "only real subject," the ground for everything. It is largely through the novel that man as an individual was established on the European scene. Away from the novel, in our real lives, we know very little about our parents as they were before our birth; we have only fragmentary knowledge of the people close to us: we see them come and go and scarcely have they vanished than their place is taken over by others: they form a long line of replaceable beings. Only the novel separates out an individual, trains a light on his biography, his ideas, his feelings, makes him irreplaceable: makes him the center of everything.
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Milan Kundera _ Encounter
Such are the Splendors and Miseries of memory: it is proud of its ability to keep truthful track of the logical sequence of past events; but when it comes to how we experienced them at the time, memory feels no obligation to truth.
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Milan Kundera _ Encounter
عندما أسمع اسم تولستوي, أتصور على الفور روايتيه العظيمتين التي لا يشبههما شيء. وعندما أنطق أسماء سارتر وكامو ومالرو, فإن ما تثيره في شخصياتهم هو سيرهم وجدالاتهم ومعاركهم ومواقفهم.
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Milan Kundera _ Encounter
ذلك أن شغف المعرفة عند الروائي لا يستهدف السياسة ولا التاريخ. ما الجديد الذي بإمكان روائي أن يكتشفه حول الأحداث الموصوفة والمناقشة في آلاف الكتب الرصينة المتنوعة؟
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