Words are the legs of the mind; they bear it about, carry It from point to point, bed it down at night, and keep it off the ground and out of the mar….

Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energ….

Fully stripped down, an onion is a pile of scattered layers; it has no center..

In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on..

A prettiness mummified by years of chalk dust..