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The Curtain : Essays

by Milan Kundera
$6.06
The Curtain : Essays - Thryft
The Curtain : Essays - Thryft

Transcending borders, Kundera defines the novel's universality.

If you're a literary enthusiast seeking an acute analysis of the novel as an art form, The Curtain is the perfect fit for you. Kundera provides a brilliant exposition of the novel's ability to reflect our reality and reveals how its development transcends national boundaries, ensuring its place as a universal form.

  • French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Non-fiction (2007)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The Curtain : Essays

by Milan Kundera
$6.06
ISBN: 9780571232819
Authors: Milan Kundera
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Date of Publication: 2007-03-15
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Philosophy, Art, Creative Nonfiction
Related Topics: Essays
Goodreads rating: 3.98
(rated by 2661 readers)

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In this entertaining and stimulating essay, one of world literature's most distinctive thinkers sets out his personal view of the history and value of the novel in Western civilization. Too often, Kundera suggests, a novel is thought about only within the confines of the language and nation of its origin, when in fact what makes a novel matter is its ability to reveal some previously unknown aspect of our existence. Kundera describes how the best novels, from Don Quixote to Ulysses and Madame Bovary to The Trial, do just that.
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Transcending borders, Kundera defines the novel's universality.

If you're a literary enthusiast seeking an acute analysis of the novel as an art form, The Curtain is the perfect fit for you. Kundera provides a brilliant exposition of the novel's ability to reflect our reality and reveals how its development transcends national boundaries, ensuring its place as a universal form.

  • French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Non-fiction (2007)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.