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In this entertaining and always stimulating collection of seven essays, Kundera deftly sketches out his personal view of the history and value of the novel. Too often, he suggests, a novel is thought about only within the confines of the nation of its origin, when in fact the novel's development has always occurred across borders: Laurence Sterne learned from Rabelais, Henry Fielding from Cervantes, Joyce from Flaubert, García Márquez from Kafka. The real work of a novel is not bound up in the specifics of any one language: what makes a novel matter is its ability to reveal some previously unknown aspect of our existence. In The Curtain, Kundera skillfully describes how the best novels do just that.
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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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"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
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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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 'A magic curtain, woven of legends, hung before the world,' writes Milan Kundera in The Curtain, his fascinating new book on the art of the novel. 'Cervantes sent Don Quixote journeying and tore the curtain. The world opened before the knight errant in all the comical nakedness of its prose.' For Kundera, that curtain represents the 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.In this entertaining and always stimulating essay, Kundera deftly sketches out his personal view of the history and value of the novel in Western civilisation. Too often, he suggests, a novel is thought about only within the confines of the language and nation of its origin, when in fact the novel's development has always occurred across borders: Laurence Sterne learned from Rabelais, Henry Fielding from Cervantes, Joyce from Flaubert, Gracia Marquez from Kafka. The real work of a novel is not bound up in the specifics of any one language: what makes a novel matter is its ability to reveal some previously unknown aspect of our existence.In The Curtain, Kundera skilfully describes how the best novels do that. A brilliant exploration of the novel - its history and its art - from one of the genre's most distinguished practitioners. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780571232819
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