Knoop (comparative literature, Freie U. Berlin) finds Milan Kundera to be a particularly fascinating example of the many contemporary authors who engage with theoretical debates about
authorship. His fictional texts treat the issue with a consistent implicitness, she says, while his essays make explicit claims as to how he wishes his work to be treated. She covers the role
of intention in the production of literary meaning, the source and development of fictional literary texts, controlling the reader's reception, and transformation. Quotations in foreign
languages are presented in the original, and all but the French followed by English translation. The study began as her PhD dissertation at University College London. Distributed in North
America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
