The art of the novel / Milan Kundera.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kundera, Milan.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Art du roman. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Fiction--History and criticism.

Fiction.

Fiction--Technique.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

165 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : HarperPerennial, 2000.

Summary:

"Every novelist's work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of what the novel is, " Kundera writes. "I have tried to express here the idea of the novel that is inherent in my own novels." Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Musil. He is especially penetrating on "perhaps the least known of all the great novelists of our time, " Hermann Broch, and his exploration of the world of Kafka's novels vividly reveals the comic terror of Kafka's bureaucratized universe. Kundera's discussion of his own work includes his views on the role of historical events in fiction, the meaning of action, and the creation of character in the postpsychological novel. His reflections on the state of the modem European novel are as witty, original, and far-reaching as his fiction.

Contents:

Part 1 The Depreciated Legacy of Cervantes 3

Part 2 Dialogue on the Art of the Novel 23

Part 3 Notes Inspired by "The Sleepwalkers" 47

Part 4 Dialogue on the Art of Composition 71

Part 5 Somewhere Behind 99

Part 6 Sixty-three Words 121

Part 7 Jerusalem Address: The Novel and Europe 157.

ISBN:

0060932945

9780060932947

OCLC:

41565186

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