Meeting

Milan Kundera opens the writing "Meeting" in which he talks about his memories and about the writers to whom he considers himself affiliated and shows a special admiration for them, and thus "Meeting" is considered an open door to a "Imaginary corridor"; to a library, divided into nine chapters mostly branching from each other. Milan Kundera in the first chapter works to clarify the following: "When an artist talks about another artist, he is indirectly and covertly talking about himself, and from here all the judgment is based." Milan Kundera, then, in this book, traces the impact of great intellectuals, and reflects on the works of others, and reveals the secrets of his own literature when he also confesses aspects of his autobiography, and thus, when he is analyzing a book like Dostoevsky, Salinger, and Philip Roth... and painters, musicians, and filmmakers as well, he questions art and searches for its relationships with the world, laughter, death, forgetfulness, and memory. Milan Kundera, based on his choices and insights, writes a history of the novel and art, and at the same time, writes a history of his personal novels, when he mentions, for example, in the way he created "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" in 1977, inspired by an article he wrote about Beckett.