The Franco-Czech novelist Milan Kundera (1929 - 2023) was born in Brno and lived in France, his second homeland, since 1975. He is the author of the novels The Joke, Life Is Elsewhere, Farewell Waltz, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and the short story collection Laughable Loves—all originally in Czech. His later novels, Slowness, Identity, Ignorance, and The Festival of Insignificance, as well as his nonfiction works, The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain, and Encounter, were originally written in French.
A landmark essay about the value of the novel from the superstar author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
A magic curtain, woven of legends, hung before the world . . . 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, this curtain represents our individual, ready-made, pre-interpreted perceptions of the world. The job of the novelist, he argues, is to rip through it to reveal what it hides.
In this outstanding essay, one of world literature's most distinctive thinkers celebrates the history and value of fiction in Western civilisation. Too often, a novel is thought about only within the confines of the language and nation of its origin, when in fact its development has always occurred across borders: Fielding learned from Cervantes, Joyce from Flaubert, Marquez from Kafka. The real work of a novel transcends locality by revealing a previously unknown aspect of human existence, asking life's biggest questions - and in his extraordinary prose, Kundera describes how the greatest novels do just that.
'Magnificent.' Observer
'Thoughtful and thought-provoking. We owe Kundera thanks.'Sunday Times
'Full of insights, which show Kundera to be a wonderful critic . . . His tone is seductive, sly and, above all, personal.' Financial Times
Título : The Curtain
EAN : 9780571367436
Editorial : Faber & Faber
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