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His mixture of insult, ressentiment, and buffoonery is a work of genius.

From Salon • Feb. 27, 2025

While not as well known as "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", published five years later, the book cemented Kundera's reputation as a leading novelist with critics who called it a work of genius.

From Reuters • Jul. 12, 2023

But it’s a flaw in a work of genius, just as colonialist subtext in Babar is a complication in a brilliant series of books.

From New York Times • Mar. 6, 2021

Patricia Lockwood’s “No One Is Talking About This” is either a work of genius or an exasperating endurance trial.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2021

Eduardo de Valfierno was rich beyond measure, and he’d pulled off the greatest crime of the century—a work of genius, a work worthy of the Mona Lisa itself.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day




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