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PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100060841869
ISBN-139780060841867
eBay Product ID (ePID)52620596
Product Key Features
Book TitleCurtain : an Essay in Seven Parts
Number of Pages176 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral, American / General, Semiotics & Theory, World, Essays
Publication Year2007
GenreLiterary Criticism, Literary Collections, History
AuthorMilan Kundera
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight10.9 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2006-043420
Dewey Edition22
TitleLeadingThe
ReviewsLovely, meandering observations on the genre to which he has consecrated his life.Like good love stories, it pulls you in., Kundera is assuredly one of the great living writers.This is a remarkable book..Absorbing and sometimes sublime., An elegant, personalized integration of anecdote, analysis, scholarship, memory and speculation...Kundera's opinions...are well worth listening to., Brilliant, vehement, learned and wise.Stimulating and provocative.THE CURTAIN raises essential questions., A swiftly told, beautifully crafted, pleasurable...scrutiny of the novel ...To Mr. Kundera, the novel is a liberating force., Kundera's essay so perfectly distilles an approach to art that it realigns the way an art form is understood., Kundera offers witty and edifying improvisations on.favorite themes.Anyone interested in the novel will delight in this book.
Dewey Decimal801
SynopsisIn this entertaining and stimulating essay, Kundera deftly sketches out his personal view of the history and value of the novel in Western civilization., "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 through the curtain. The world opened before the knight-errant in all the comical nakedness of its prose." For Kundera, that curtain represents a 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 cleverly sketches out his personal view of the history and value of the novel in Western civilization. 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, 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 skillfully describes how the best novels do just that., "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." --Russell Banks, New York Times Book Review "A magic curtain, woven of legends, hung before the world. Cervantes sent Don Quixote journeying and tore through the curtain. The world opened before the knight-errant in all the comical nakedness of its prose." In this thought-provoking, endlessly enlightening, and entertaining essay on the art of the novel, renowned author Milan Kundera suggests that "the curtain" represents a 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. Here an incomparable literary artist cleverly sketches out his personal view of the history and value of the novel in Western civilization. In doing so, he celebrates a prose form that possesses the unique ability to transcend national and language boundaries in order to reveal some previously unknown aspect of human existence., "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 through the curtain. The world opened before the knight-errant in all the comical nakedness of its prose." For Kundera, that curtain represents a 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 cleverly sketches out his personal view of the history and value of the novel in Western civilization. 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, 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 skillfully describes how the best novels do just that.
LC Classification NumberPN49.K8613 2007
