The Curtain

The Curtain
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Publisher : HarperCollins
Total Pages : 178
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ISBN-10 : 9780063290938
ISBN-13 : 0063290936
Rating : 4/5 (936 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Curtain by : Milan Kundera

Download or read book The Curtain written by Milan Kundera and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An elegant, personalized integration of anecdote, analysis, scholarship, memory and speculation. . . . Not since Henry James, perhaps, has a fiction writer examined the process of writing with such insight, authority and range of reference and allusion.” —Russell Banks, New York Times Book Review “A magic curtain, woven of legends, hung before the world. Cervantes sent Don Quixote journeying and tore through the curtain. The world opened before the knight-errant in all the comical nakedness of its prose.” 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 to rip through the curtain and reveal what it hides. Here an incomparable literary artist cleverly sketches out his personal view of the history and value of the novel in Western civilization. In doing so, he celebrates a prose form that possesses the unique ability to transcend national and language boundaries in order to reveal some previously unknown aspect of human existence.


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