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Book Description
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 tContinue
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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Reading With Kundera
Milan Kundera (who writes these days in French) is perhaps the best, certainly the best-known, Czech fiction writer since Kafka (who was arguably more German than Czech anyway). This is his third book-length meditation on the novel, all three transla ... (read full critics)
nytimes published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010
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- English Books
- Paperback 176 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0060841958
- ISBN-13: 9780060841959
- Publisher: Harper Perennial
- Pub date: Jan 01, 2008
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover
- In other languages: other languages
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Dkyleung 2000 
Compassion for the ephemeral
The Curtain by Milan Kundera 256pp, Faber, £12.99 In A Passage to India, EM Forster writes: "Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in ... (read full critics)