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Book Description
Every novelist's work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of what the novel is. I have tried to express here the idea of the novel that is inherent in my own novels.
-- Milan Kundera
Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as RaContinue
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guardian.co.uk published on Sun, 26 Sep 2010
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Nuvvles
Novelists on the novel – or, at any rate, good novelists on the novel – often write with a vigour and a commitment to the form that shames more academic approaches. Such practitioners’ confessions, as Milan Kundera calls them, may be more partial but ... (read full critics)
lrb published on Fri, 3 Sep 2010
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- English Books
- Hardcover 240 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0571148190
- ISBN-13: 9780571148196
- Publisher: Faber and Faber Ltd
- Pub date: Dec 31, 1988
- Also available as: Paperback and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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| 9780571148196 | Hardcover | $17.63 | -- | The Book Depository |
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Henry C. 
The unbearable knowingness of Kundera
I can never read two pages of Milan Kundera without trying to remember who called Matthew Arnold Mr Kidglove Cocksure. Or, for that matter, who said: 'I wish I could be assure of anything as that man is about everything.' Part of the trouble, I know, ... (read full critics)