SOURCE: "Ping-pong," in The Listener, Vol. 99, No. 2563, June 8, 1978, p. 746.

An English poet, novelist, and critic, Enright is sometimes associated with a group of authors—Kingsley Amis, John Wain, Philip Larkin, Robert Conquest, and Elizabeth Jennings—whose concerted dissent from tradition earned them the informal moniker The Movement. Well known as a literary critic, Enright's reviews have appeared in the New Statesman, Encounter, and London Magazine. In the following review, he focuses on Kundera's depiction of deceit and manipulation in relationships.

Generically, these stories form another set of Games that People Play, better done than most—though possibly in this sphere the better is still the enemy of the good. Milan Kundera's characters are conscious of what they are doing—it would hardly be a game if they were not—but this doesn't prevent them from doing it. Thus a contemporary Don Juan points out that contemporary Don Juans...