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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780060093747 |
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Publisher 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.-- 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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Synopsis:
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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megcampbell3, January 12, 2008 (view all comments by megcampbell3)
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.
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780060093747
- Translator:
- Asher, Linda
- Publisher:
- Harper Perennial
- Author:
- Author:
- Translator:
- Asher, Linda
- 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.
