昆德拉眼下可算是大名鼎鼎的世界级作家了。但他的“大名鼎鼎”从一开始就包含着诸多让一位小说家颇觉尴尬的艺术之外的因素。有相当一部分人在相当一段时间里将他当作纯粹“出于义愤或在暴行的刺激下愤而执笔写作的社会反抗作家”。甚至到了80年代,在一次昆德拉作品电视讨论会上,仍有人称他的成名作《玩笑》是“对斯大林主义的有力控诉”。昆德拉当时十分反感,立即插话:“请别用你的斯大林主义来让我难堪了。《玩笑》只是个爱情故事!”为了捍卫自己的艺术性,昆德拉几乎使出了浑身解数。这让我们不由得想起了他十分喜爱的堂吉诃德这一小说人物。他发表文 Kundera now is a famous world-class writer. But his “great name” has from the very beginning included many factors beyond the art of embarrassing a novelist. A considerable number of people regard him for a very long time as a purely “social resistance writer” writing out of indignation or outraged by the atrocities. Even in the 1980s, at a Kundera TV seminar, there were still people who called his fame “joke” a “strong complaint against Stalinism.” Kundera was very upset then, immediately interrupted: “Do not use your Stalinism to make me embarrassed.” Joking “is just a love story! ” In order to defend their artistic, Kundera almost resorted to every means . This makes us can not help but think of his favorite novel Don Quixote novel. He published the article