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The Art of the Novel (Perennial Classic)

by Milan Kundera

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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.

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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.
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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.

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The 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.
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This short read was akin to taking a master class in writing and reading, the classroom dialogue replaced by the intensity of listening closely to the book. Milan Kundera's vision of his own writing, its construction (story, theme; motif) and its context in European history, means as much to the art of the novel in Europe as it does to the art of the novel world-wide, as well as to the writers who continue to nurture a fictional landscape that begins way back and extends far beyond the page. Unexpectedly, deeply thought-provoking.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780060093747
Translator:
Asher, Linda
Publisher:
Harper Perennial
Translator:
Asher, Linda
Author:
Kundera, Milan
Author:
by Milan Kundera
Subject:
General
Subject:
Semiotics & Theory
Subject:
Composition & Creative Writing - General
Subject:
General Literary Criticism & Collections
Series:
Perennial Classic
Publication Date:
April 2003
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
176
Dimensions:
8.22x5.28x.47 in. .31 lbs.
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