The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts Paper back - 2007
by Kundera, Milan
- Used
- very good
In this entertaining and stimulating essay, Kundera deftly sketches out his personal view of the history and value of the novel in Western civilization.
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Details
- Title The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts
- Author Kundera, Milan
- Binding Paper Back
- Edition First Paperback Edition
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 176
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial
- Date 2007
- Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0835099
- ISBN 9780060841959 / 0060841958
- Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
- Dimensions 7.98 x 5.36 x 0.44 in (20.27 x 13.61 x 1.12 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: French
- Library of Congress subjects Literature - Philosophy, Fiction - History and criticism
- Dewey Decimal Code 801
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From the rear cover
"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.
