Milan Kundera

The Curtain (eBook, ePUB)

Essays
Übersetzer: Asher, Linda

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780571367436
• Artikelnr.: 60294910

Autorenporträt

The French-Czech novelist Milan Kundera was born in the Czech Republic and has lived in France since 1975.

Rezensionen

"An elegant, personalized integration of anecdote, analysis, scholarship, memory and speculation. . . . Not since Henry James, perhaps, has a fiction writer examined the process of writing with such insight, authority and range of reference and allusion. . . Kundera's opinions, reflections, memories and desires are well worth listening to." - New York Times Book Review

"A work of sophisticated literary cartography. . . agreeably studded with insights." - Wall Street Journal

"Essential reading in a long history of debates about the genre. . . . Wise, deep, and witty." - New York Review of Books

"Kundera...argues brilliantly...Discarding chronology, [he] lets us witness the inner workings of his....wonderful reader's mind." - Cecile Alduy, San Francisco Chronicle

"As the French expression goes, Kundera always gives you furiously to think...[He] writes...with passion." - Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World

"Lovely, meandering observations on the genre to which he has consecrated his life. . . . Like good love stories, it pulls you in." - Philadelphia Inquirer

"Kundera offers witty and edifying improvisations on...favorite themes...Anyone interested in the novel will delight in this book." - Alec Solomita, New York Sun

"Well-worth reading. . . witty and brisk and very smart, like all of [Kundera's] writing." - William Deresiewicz, The Nation

"A swiftly told, beautifully crafted, pleasurable. . . scrutiny of the novel. . . . To Mr. Kundera, the novel is a liberating force." - The Economist

"Bursting at the seams with ideas. . . Kundera dashes irrepressibly around his own studio. . . to consistently fascinating effect. A rare pleasure." - Steven Poole, New Statesman

"Kundera is assuredly one of the great living writers. . . . This is a remarkable book. . . . Absorbing and sometimes sublime." - Buffalo News

"Brilliant, vehement, learned and wise...Stimulating and provocative...THE CURTAIN raises essential questions." - Salon.com

"Kundera's essay so perfectly distilles an approach to art that it realigns the way an art form is understood." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Evocative...Kundera marvelously conducts us on a journey through the history of the novel." - Library Journal