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Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, ahistorical accidents, soon forgotten.
Source: On Criticism, Aesthetics, and Europe, in Review of Contemporary Fiction (Summer 1989; originally from Kundera's introduction to Fran?ois Ricard, La Litt?rature Contre Elle-Mme).
-- Milan Kundera, (Apr 1 1929-____), Czech novelist, playwright, poet; He wrote various works combining erotic comedy with political criticism.