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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, 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.

Author

Milan Kundera; Linda Asher

Publisher

Faber & Faber, Limited

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780571367436

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.97 / 5 (1,231 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14