The Hitchhiking Game (Further Reading)

Further Reading

• Kundera, Milan, The Art of the Novel, New York: Grove Press, 1986.

  Kundera’s non-fiction work exploring his theories of the development of the European novel.

• ____, Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts, New York: HarperCollins, 1995.

  Kundera’s non-fiction essay critiquing the ways in which the modern novel has been perceived by many critics. Focuses particularly on his view that the humor of the Czech writer Franz Kafka has been overlooked.

• Misurella, Fred, Understanding Milan Kundera: Public Events, Private Affairs, Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1993.

  Explores the recurrent theme in Kundera’s work in which political circumstances affect the power dynamics of personal relationships.

• Pillai, C. Gopinathan, The Political Novels of Milan Kundera and O. V. Vijayan: A Comparative Study, New Delhi: Prestige, 1996.

  Compares the political implications of Kundera’s novels with those of the Indian writer Vijayan.

• Podhoretz, Norman, The Bloody Crossroads: Where Literature and Politics Meet, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986.

  Treats a small selection of writers, such as Camus, Orwell and Henry Adams. Includes a chapter entitled, “An Open Letter to Milan Kundera — the terrible Question of Aleksadr Solzhenitsyn.”