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The Art of the Novel (Perennial Classic)by Milan Kundera
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Every novelist's work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of what the novel is. I have tried to express here the idea of the novel that is inherent in my own novels.<BR> — Milan Kundera
Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Musil. He is especially penetrating on Hermann Broch, and his exploration of the world of Kafka's novels vividly reveals the comic terror of Kafka's bureaucratized universe.
Kundera's discussion of his own work includes his views on the role of historical events in fiction, the meaning of action, and the creation of character in the post-psychological novel.
Book News Annotation:The noted author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1982) collects
seven essays written between 1979 and 1985 on his conception of the
novel. Kundera's themes range from Cervantes as the forgotten founder
of the Modern Era, to the roles of novelists vs. philosophers. The
first Perennial Library edition appeared in 1988; originally
published in French in 1986 as L'Art du roman by Éditions Gallimard.
Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Synopsis:Kundera examines the evolution, construction, and essence of the novel as an art form through the lens of his own work and through the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Musil, Kafka, and perhaps the least known of all the great novelists of our time, Hermann Broch. Refreshing, unorthodox, elegant, and lucid, The Art of the Novel illuminates the role of historical events in fiction, the meaning of action, the creation of character in the postpsychological novel and his reflections on the state of the modern European novel. About the AuthorThe Franco-Czech novelist Milan Kundera was born in Brno and has lived in France, his second homeland, since 1975. He is the author of the novels The Joke, Life Is Elsewhere, Farewell Waltz, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Immortality, and the short-story collection Laughable Loves—all originally in Czech. His most recent novels, Slowness, Identity and Ignorance, as well as his nonfiction works The Art of the Novel and Testaments Betrayed, were originally written in French. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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