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Milan Kundera The Curtain (Paperback)
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- Publication Name
- The Curtain
- Title
- The Curtain
- Subtitle
- Essays
- Translator
- Linda Asher
- Contributor
- Linda Asher (Translated by)
- ISBN-10
- 0571232817
- EAN
- 9780571232819
- ISBN
- 9780571232819
- Edition
- Main
- Genre
- Literary Criticism
- Release Date
- 15/03/2007
- Release Year
- 2007
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Length
- 131mm
- UPC
- 9780571232819
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- The Curtain: Essays
- Item Height
- 196mm
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Topic
- Literary Theory
- Item Width
- 129mm
- Item Weight
- 202g
- Number of Pages
- 176 Pages
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'A magic curtain, woven of legends, hung before the world,' writes Milan Kundera in The Curtain, his fascinating new book on the art of the novel. 'Cervantes sent Don Quixote journeying and tore the curtain. The world opened before the knight errant in all the comical nakedness of its prose.' For Kundera, that curtain represents the ready-made perception of the world that each of us has - a pre-interpreted world. The job of the novelist, he argues is to rip through the curtain and reveal what it hides. In this entertaining and always stimulating essay, Kundera deftly sketches out his personal view of the history and value of the novel in Western civilisation. Too often, he suggests, a novel is thought about only within the confines of the language and 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, Gracia 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 that.
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Faber & Faber
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9780571232819
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Book Title
The Curtain: Essays
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literary Theory
Publication Year
2007
Number of Pages
176 Pages
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196mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
202g
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