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"A magic curtain, woven of legends, hung before the world. Cervantes sent Don Quixote journeying and tore through the curtain. The world opened before the knight-errant in all the comical nakedness of its prose."

In this thought-provoking, endlessly enlightening, and entertaining essay on the art of the novel, renowned author Milan Kundera suggests that "the curtain" represents a ready-made perception of the world that each of us has--a pre-interpreted world. The job of the novelist, he argues, is to rip through the curtain and reveal what it hides. Here an incomparable literary artist cleverly sketches out his personal view of the history and value of the novel in Western civilization. In doing so, he celebrates a prose form that possesses the unique ability to transcend national and language boundaries in order to reveal some previously unknown aspect of human existence.

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"Well-worth reading.witty and brisk and very smart, like all of [Kundera's] writing." -- William Deresiewicz, The Nation

"A work of sophisticated literary cartography.agreeably studded with insights." -- Joseph Epstein, Wall Street Journal

"Kundera.argues brilliantly.Discarding chronology, Kundera lets us witness the inner workings of his....wonderful reader's mind." -- Cecile Alduy, San Francisco Chronicle

"Bursting at the seams with ideas.Kundera dashes irrepressibly around his own studio...to consistently fascinating effect. A rare pleasure." -- Steven Poole, New Statesman

"Brilliant, vehement, learned and wise.Stimulating and provocative.THE CURTAIN raises essential questions." -- Salon.com

"Kundera offers witty and edifying improvisations on...favorite themes...Anyone interested in the novel will delight in this book."--Alec Solomita, New York Sun

"Essential reading in a long history of debates about the genre...Wise, deep, and witty."--New York Review of Books

"Lovely, meandering observations on the genre to which he has consecrated his life...Like good love stories, it pulls you in."--Philadelphia Inquirer

"Kundera is assuredly one of the great living writers...This is a remarkable book....Absorbing and sometimes sublime."--Buffalo News

"Kundera...argues brilliantly...Discarding chronology, Kundera lets us witness the inner workings of his....wonderful reader's mind."--Cecile Alduy, San Francisco Chronicle
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Milan Kundera's The Curtain: Essays is a brilliant exploration of the novel - its history and its art - from one of the genre's most distinguished practitioners.

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  • PublisherHarper Perennial
  • Publication date2013
  • ISBN 10 0060841958
  • ISBN 13 9780060841959
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages178
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