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  The Curtain (Paperback) By (author) Milan Kundera

  

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  Short Description for The CurtainA collection of seven essays that sketches out the author's personal view of the history and value of the novel. 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. This work describes how the best novels do just that.
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  • Publisher: Faber and Faber
  • Published: 15 March 2007
  • Format: Paperback 256 pages
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  • Categories: Literary Essays | Anthologies (non-poetry)
  • ISBN 13: 9780571232819 ISBN 10: 0571232817
  • Sales rank: 160,734

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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, Garcia 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 just that.