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To: SwampDogg who wrote (1587)	11/13/1999 4:06:00 PM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

Hi, fuddle! Although the technique had been used before, I agree that Kundera did it exceptionally well, with comic irony and a delicate eroticism, and deserves consideration.

To: SwampDogg who wrote (1587)	11/13/1999 6:14:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

Sounds like Proust to me...Lawrence Durrell also used the technique effectively in The Alexandria Quartet. (In film, of course, there's Rashomon.) I have not read Kundera, although my son is always urging me to do so. I am sure he is an excellent writer, but seems to me he can't lay claim to having been the originator of the technique you describe, or to having been that "influential" (as distinct from being just plain good). Boy, I hate to be so negative!!! Is there some way we can let every good/great writer onto the list???