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Milan Kundera and Italo Calvino: The Author As Critic
From: The Washington Post
Date: 19880327
Author:Lanie Goodman
THE ART OF THE NOVEL By Milan Kundera Translated from the French By Linda Asher Grove. 165 pp. $16.95 SIX MEMOS FOR THE NEXT MILLENNIUM By Italo Calvino Translated from the Italian By Patrick Creagh Harvard University Press. 124 pp. $12.95
A LITTLE over a century ago, Gustave Flaubert left us with his literary testament, The Dictionary of Accepted Ideas, an encyclopedia of cliche's that embraces everything from apricots and blondes to Voltaire and Wagner. As the author explained in a letter to his mistress, Louise Colet, it was to be an entire book devoted to "the historical ...
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