{"product_id":"9780061894435","title":"Encounter: Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003eEncounter is the latest addition to the acclaimed body of literary criticism from beloved author Milan Kundera (\u003ci\u003eThe Unbearable Lightness of Being\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Laughter and Forgetting\u003c\/i\u003e). Novelist Russell Banks writes, “Not since Henry James, perhaps, has a fiction writer examined the process of writing with such insight, authority, and range of reference and allusion.” In \u003ci\u003eEncounter\u003c\/i\u003e, Kundera brilliantly reflects on some of his signature themes and old loves (Rabelais, Fellini, Janacek, Malaparte), on literature, on morality, and on the transformation of civilization as we know it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47015561068784,"sku":"9780061894435","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780061894435_p0.jpg?v=1763624100","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780061894435","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}