by Milan Kundera · Harper and Row · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571142224
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«The Art of the Novel» is Milan Kundera's essay on the European novel, published by Harper and Row in paperback (165 pages, in English).
Kundera reflects on the European novel, a genre that, according to him, is born from the «laughter of God», and analyzes works by Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy and Musil. He examines Broch and Kafka, and sets out his ideas on action, character and the role of history in fiction, with a critical look at the genre's present.
Translation by Linda Asher from the French original «L'art du roman»; 1988 edition.
For those interested in literary criticism, novel theory and Milan Kundera's essayistic work.
Milan Kundera was a Czech and French novelist. Kundera went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981. His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.
