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...TIME reader who was listening to the radio last week while looking at the current issue of the magazine might have experienced the odd shock of hearing the language of some of the stories leap off the page: "The twisters left behind scenes that might have been conceived by a macabre surrealist-in some farming areas the dead bodies of cows were found hanging from trees . . ." or "If the complex mission works, Challenger will have shown the world that costly satellites need no longer be allowed to die wastefully in space...
Nevertheless, the book cannot avoid leaving the reader with a vague, uncomfortable impression of sadness, pessimism, and frustration. Significantly, only two nations--Brazil and the UK in Northern Ireland--are cited for significant improvement during the past three years, and both have relatively high standards of living. And if any common denominator can be found in the most offensive regimes, it is poverty and poor living conditions. The study alludes to this basic problem...
MILAN KUNDERA SEEMS to have the best interests of his readers at heart. He begins The Unbearable Lightness of Being, his latest and rather ridiculous-sounding novel, with a direct statement of authorial concerns. This beginning, although a formidable piece of structural clumsiness, represents a kindly attempt to save the reader's time; while one does not get an explicit statement of Kundera's theme, one receives an engaging and straightforward account of what the author thinks. No grubbing about in the text for the Kundera reader...
Kundera lends his complete sympathy to Tereza, and his analysis of her condition prevents the reader from hating her weakness. Unity of sensibility is impossible for Tereza...
...value of art. Judging the narrator on his own terms, this faith is touching in its naivete but jarring in its irrationality; perhaps such a narrator must consciously foster illusions in order to do his work, but he should not obtrude such a perversion of the will upon the reader...