Louis Sheaffer’s O’Neill: Son and Artist is “tremendous.”

tone. Two of them are about a Dr. Havel, a gentle, aging Don Juan. The first of these, “A Symposium,” chronicles the primarily sexual impulses of five members of a hospital staff as they drink wine in the late hours of a night shift. If “The Hitchhiking Game” had the taut lines of Roman Polanski’s Knife in the Water, “A Symposium” is an internalized bedroom farce like Ingmar Bergman’s Smiles of a Summer Night.

As always, Knopf’s books are attractive and bound in signatures. These two held up on a camping trip with a baby, a dog, and a three-inch rain. The type face used in the headings didn’t seem appropriate to the author’s style, but nevertheless, no other publisher seems to have as much respect for the reading public. Kundera certainly deserves to be given the red carpet abroad—-especially since’s he’s on the red carpet at home.

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tone. Two of them are about a Dr. Havel, a gentle, aging Don Juan. The first of these, “A Symposium,” chronicles the primarily sexual impulses of five members of a hospital staff as they drink wine in the late hours of a night shift. If “The Hitchhiking Game” had the taut lines of Roman Polanski’s Knife in the Water, “A Symposium” is an internalized bedroom farce like Ingmar Bergman’s Smiles of a Summer Night.

As always, Knopf’s books are attractive and bound in signatures. These two held up on a camping trip with a baby, a dog, and a three-inch rain. The type face used in the headings didn’t seem appropriate to the author’s style, but nevertheless, no other publisher seems to have as much respect for the reading public. Kundera certainly deserves to be given the red carpet abroad—-especially since’s he’s on the red carpet at home.