Milan Kundera - Találkozás

"Beautiful... like the chance meeting of the sewing machine and the umbrella on the autopsy table": Varying the famous line of Lautréamont, the forerunner of the French surrealists, Milan Kundera inserts this chapter title in the middle of his volume of essays published for his birthday: "Beautiful, like the multiple meeting."
He gives an account of his encounters with works, art forms, artists, landscapes, and although for him the only meaning of art is beauty (and life is art), he remembers not only the beautiful. He takes stock of the historical situations, coincidences and laws he has experienced, critically analyzing himself and, through himself, human nature. According to him, the novelist dedicates his life to getting to know people...